Henry Moore OM, CH

Two Piece Reclining Figure No.5

1963–4, cast date unknown

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Not on display
Artist
Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
Object: 2375 x 3683 x 1988 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the artist 1978
Reference
T02294

Display caption

Henry Moore stated that in his work he was obsessed by two themes, the Mother and Child and the Reclining Figure. This is a major example of the second theme, with the upright piece representing the head and torso, while the lower piece represents the legs of the figure. Moore's reclining figures are always female because he equated woman with life, survival, fecundity and endurance. This work is one of two that Moore made as prototypes for a reclining figure commissioned for the new Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts in New York. The figure was to be twenty-eight feet long and seventeen feet high.

Gallery label, March 1997

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