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.
Florence
Basilica di Santa Croce
bronze
height 213cm
The idea for ‘The Warrior’ came to me at the end of 1952 or very early in 1953. It was evolved from a pebble I found on the seashore in the summer of 1952, and which reminded me of the stump of a leg, amputated at the hip. Just as Leonardo says somewhere in his notebooks that a painter can find a battle scene in the lichen marks on a wall, so this gave me the start of ‘The Warrior’ idea.
Henry Moore in a letter dated 15 January 1955; quoted in Philip James (ed.), Henry Moore on Sculpture: a collection of the sculptor’s writings and spoken words, Macdonald, London 1966, p.250