Large Two Forms

Large Two Forms
The cast in Grange Park, 2023
Artist	Henry Moore

Large Two Forms (LH 566) is a 1966-1969 sculpture by Henry Moore. The monumental sculpture measures 365 cm × 610 cm × 400 cm (144 in × 240 in × 157 in). It comprises two large curving elements that almost meet. The organic shapes, each with oval openings, resemble two human pelvis bones, positioned as if copulating. The work may have a distant relationship to his 1934 sculpture Two Forms (LH 153) in pynkado wood, now held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Moore made a small 16.5 cm (6.5 in) plaster maquette of the work that became Large Two Forms in 1966. This maquette (LH 554a) was cast in bronze (LH 554b) in 1976, in an edition of 9+1 (nine plus an artist's cast). Moore carved a single 97 cm (38 in) stone version (LH 555) in red travertine in 1966.

The plaster maquette was scaled up into a full-sized version using polystyrene blocks, and was cast in bronze Hermann Noack's foundry in Berlin, in an edition 4+1 (four made in 1969, plus an artist's cast made posthumously in 1992). The two elements weigh about 3.5 tonnes each. There were also unique versions in plaster and fibreglass, the latter created to be more mobile for exhibition, for example in 1971 at the Belvedere in Florence and the Tuileries Garden in Paris.^[1]

Four of the five bronze casts are displayed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Neuberger Museum of Art at the State University of New York at Purchase, and outside the former Federal Chancellery building in Bonn.

Toronto cast

Cast number 1 was installed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1973.^[2][3][4] Originally located next to the Art Gallery of Ontario at the corner of Dundas and McCaul streets, the artwork was moved in 2017 and is now installed in Grange Park.

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  Yorkshire
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  Ontario, before 2017
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  Bonn

References

• Henry Moore: Large Two Forms, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• Inside the NEU: Henry Moore, Neuberger Museum of Art
• Maquette for Two Forms, LH 554a, plaster, 1966, Henry Moore Foundation
• Maquette for Two Forms, LH 554b, bronze, 1966, Henry Moore Foundation
• Two Forms, LH 555, red travertine, 1966, Henry Moore Foundation
• Large Two Forms, Henry Moore Foundation
  • LH 556 cast 0, The Henry Moore Foundation, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
  • LH 556 cast 1, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • LH 556 cast 2, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
  • LH 556 cast 4, Bundeskanzleramt, Bonn

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Sculptures

• List of sculptures
• Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure
• Reclining Figure 1938
• Recumbent Figure 1938
• Reclining Figure 1939
• Three Standing Figures 1947
• Family Group
• Reclining Figure: Festival
• King and Queen
• Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53
• Large Interior Form, 1953–54
• Reclining Figure: External Form 1953–1954
• Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross
• Seated Woman, 1957
• Draped Seated Woman 1957–58
• Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58
• UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58
• Standing Figure: Knife Edge
• Large Torso, Arch
• Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65
• Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop
• Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center)
• Three Way Piece No.1: Points
• Three Way Piece No.2: Archer
• Locking Piece
• Man Enters the Cosmos
• Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
• Nuclear Energy
• Spindle Piece
• Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model)
• Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae
• Oval with Points
• Large Two Forms
• Reclining Figure 1969–70
• Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points
• Large Arch
• Sheep Piece 1971–72
• Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73
• Hill Arches 1973
• Goslar Warrior 1973–1974
• Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975
• The Arch 1979–1980

Assistants

• Reg Butler
• Anthony Caro
• Robert Clatworthy
• Phillip King
• Philip McCracken
• Bernard Meadows
• Lenton Parr
• Ron Robertson-Swann
• Stephen Walker
• Richard Wentworth
• Isaac Witkin

Associated with

• Barbara Hepworth
• Unit One

Supporters

• Kenneth Clark

Institutions

• Henry Moore Foundation