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.
Duisburg
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
bronze
height 30cm
photo: Darren Chung
Some people have said why do I make the heads so unimportant. Actually, for me the head is the most important part of a piece of sculpture. It gives to the rest a scale, it gives to the rest a certain human poise, and meaning, and it’s because I think that the head is so important that often I reduce it in size to make the rest more monumental. It’s a thing that anyhow was done. The heads of Michelangelo’s figures will sometimes go twelve times instead of the usual six and a half, which is the average. It is a recognised thing.
Henry Moore quoted from Face to Face interviews with John Freeman, edited by Hugh Burnett, Cape, London 1964, p.32