On loan
Albuquerque Museum (New Mexico, USA): Moore and O'Keeffe: Bones and Stones to Oil and Bronze
- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 1080 × 2360 × 1220 mm, 948 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1978
- Reference
- T02303
Display caption
This work is related to Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae, a vast sculpture over twenty-four feet long and the even larger Three Forms Vertebrae outside Dallas City Hall, which is about forty-feet long. Moore argued that the size of a sculpture should be determined by where it is. As he received commissions for sculptures to be sited next to large buildings, the scale of the works grew. According to Moore, it was the intrinsic monumentality of the sculptures which allowed them to be successfully enlarged to such sizes.
Gallery label, August 2004
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