In Tate Britain
- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 670 × 1540 × 850 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1978
- Reference
- T02278
Display caption
Moore was internationally famous for sculptures of female figures when, in the mid- 1950s, he produced a number of sculptures of vulnerable males. For these he looked to classical precedents, photographs and such other sources as the plaster casts of the victims of Pompeii. These suffering male figures spoke, perhaps, to current Cold War anxieties and memories of recent warfare.
Gallery label, September 2016
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