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.
Weedon Lois
Parish church of St Mary
bronze
length 34.5cm
When I was making the large version of King and Queen, and getting to working on the hands in detail, I got a little stuck with them, and contrary to my previous practice, I felt that I needed to have a model of a real hand. And so I asked my wife to come into the studio and hold her hand in the position I required, - she posed for about a quarter of an hour and then said she couldn’t stay any longer as the lunch she was cooking needed her attention. I then asked Mary, my daughter who was six years old, to come and hold her hand in the position I wanted, and in this way I was helped in completing the hands of the full-size sculpture... But the idea came to me of putting the two hands together in a relief composition, and this is how the plaque came about.
Henry Moore in a letter to Allan D. Emile, 21 October 1966