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Moore and Chadwick: A Radical Form

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10 September - 23 October 2025
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, c. 1936-37

Henry Moore

Reclining Figure, c. 1936-37
Bronze
2 3/4 x 5 1/8 x 2 1/2 in, 7 x 13 x 6.5 cm
Conceived c. 1936-37 and cast in 1959 in an edition of 6
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Henry Moore created ‘Reclining Figure’ in the mid-1930s before casting it some twenty years later. As a sculpture from early in Moore’s career, the influence of Surrealism is clear. In...
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Henry Moore created ‘Reclining Figure’ in the mid-1930s before casting it some twenty years later. As a sculpture from early in Moore’s career, the influence of Surrealism is clear. In 1930 the artist moved to Paris, and became friends with the Surrealist artists Jean Arp and Joan Miró, taking interest in their use of biomorphic forms, mixing them with Abstraction to create his own unique artistic vocabulary.

Created on an intimate scale, Relining Figure is powerful in its small scale. Negative space is used to carve through the body, creating hollows and giving different perspectives. The surface is both smooth and textured, with the artist’s carving of the cast seen in every stroke.
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Provenance

Lefevre Gallery, London
Private Collection (purchased at the above)
Private Collection (by descent from above)
Osborne Samuel, London

Exhibitions

London, Lefevre Gallery, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, November - December 1972, no. 1, pp. 8-9, illus.

Literature

A. Bowness, Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1980-1986, Addendum to Volume 1, 1921-48, Vol. VI, London, no. 175a, p. 28, illus. of another cast

This sculpture is recorded with the Henry Moore Foundation under number 2024.73

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