Not on display
- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 156 × 86 × 70 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1945
- Reference
- N05602
Display caption
The mother and child had been a major theme in Moore’s work since the 1920s. Yet when the vicar of St Matthew, Northampton, invited Moore to make a sculpture of the Madonna and Child, he was reluctant to accept. He felt unsure how to adapt his secular interests to the Christian tradition. These bronzes are casts of the original terracotta models he made for the project. They are unusually naturalistic and steeped in references to Renaissance religious art. This suggests Moore was trying to produce a sculpture that people would find both modern and familiar.
Gallery label, September 2016
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