Reclining Figure - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
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Reclining Figure 1969 displayed in the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden at the entrance the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Waymark Code: WM14EQY
Location: Israel
Date Posted: 06/24/2021
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Reclining Figure 1969–70 (LH 608) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore.
Inspired by the shape of a piece of flint, Moore created a maquette for the sculpture in plaster which was cast in an edition of small bronzes, some 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long. The maquette was used to create a full-size version in polystyrene, which was used to create a mould for a monumental sculpture.
The sculpture can be viewed as an abstraction of a reclining female human figure, resting on one arm, hip and two legs, with the second arm raised, and a prominence on the chest suggesting a breast. It has no evident face.
Six full-size copies were cast in 1969 and early 1970, at the Noack factory in Berlin, and an artist's copy was cast shortly before Moore's death in 1986. The sculpture measures 3 × 3.6 × 2 metres (9.8 × 11.8 × 6.6 ft) and weighs around 2 tonnes (2.2 tons). One cast was exhibited in a major retrospective of his work at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence in 1972, later described by Moore as the pinnacle of his career.
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