Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73

Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73
outside the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco
Artist	Henry Moore
Catalogue	LH 629[1]
Medium	Bronze
Subject	A reclining human figure
Dimensions	4 m (13 ft)

Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (LH 629) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. Approximately 4 metres (13 ft) long, the sculpture was made an edition of seven full size casts (plus an artist's copy), all cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin.

Description

Relatively unusually for Moore's work, the cast is polished rather than patinated. The highly abstract – almost surreal – sculpture comprises four pieces, with the composition reminiscent of a reclining human figure.

Casts

One cast is located outside the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall at the intersection of Van Ness and Grove Streets in San Francisco's Civic Center, in the U.S. state of California.^[2][3] The work's estimated cost is between $60,000 and $85,000.^[2] The work was displayed in London's Gagosian Gallery in 2012.^[4]

Other casts are located at the Lamont Library, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts,^[5] and at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art in Kofu, Japan.^[6] The artist's copy (cast 0) is at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.^[7]

See also

• List of sculptures by Henry Moore
• 1973 in art

References