Henry Moore Works in Public
This is a guide to Moore's sculptures on public display throughout the world. We strive to ensure that all information is accurate, however we recommend that you contact each venue before making a visit. Please also contact us if you spot any mistakes. In some instances it has not been possible to source an image of the actual sculpture in-situ, and on such occasions an alternative image has been used.
Helsinki
Didrichsen Art Museum
- Reclining Figure on Pedestal 1959-60 (LH 456)
- Mother and Child: Round Head 1963 (LH 512)
- Working Model for Knife Edge Two Piece 1962 (LH 504)
- Upright Internal/External Form: Flower 1951 (LH 293b)
- Atom Piece (Working Model for Nuclear Energy) 1964-65 (LH 525)
- Archer 1965 (LH 536)
- Working Model for Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 (LH 654)
- Twin Heads 1976 (LH 700)
- Egg Form: Pebbles 1977 (LH 718)
- Man and Woman I 1978 (LH 742)
- Reclining Mother and Child I 1979 (LH 778)
- Reclining Mother and Child III 1979 (LH 780)
bronze
height 130cm
I want to be quite free of having to find a ‘reason’ for doing the Reclining Figures, and freer still of having to find a ‘meaning’ for them. The vital thing for an artist is to have a subject that allows to try out all kinds of formal ideas – things that he doesn’t yet know about for certain but wants to experiment with, as Cézanne did in his ‘Bathers’ series. In my case the reclining figure provides chances of that sort. The subject-matter is given. It’s settled for you, and you know it and like it, so that within it, within the subject that you’ve done a dozen times before, you are free to invent a completely new form-idea.
Henry Moore quoted in John Russell, Henry Moore, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London 1968, p.28