In Tate Britain
Spotlights: Henry Moore
Free entry- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Plaster and string
- Dimensions
- Object: 1054 x 2273 x 892 mm, 271 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1978
- Reference
- T02270
Display caption
In the late 1940s, the Arts Council invited Moore to submit ideas for a sculpture to be sited at the South Bank site of the Festival of Britain. Although the organising committee suggested a family theme, Moore chose to make this tense, skeletal reclining form. The work on display is the plaster model for the bronze, which was cast in an edition of five.
Gallery label, September 2004
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