figure study | chair | woman | reading | abstract art
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
Katharine Eustace, Hendy Moores, Ashmolean, Summer 1994, pp. 14-15, N1195.08 A6 (LC) (SML)David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculptues, , vol. 1, Lund Humphries, London, 1977-1999, vol. 1, p. 16, no. 264, NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculpture, , v. 1-6, Lund Humphries, London, 1977 - 1999, p. 16, vol. 1, cat. 264, NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Timothy Wilson, Acqisitions for the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1987-1993, Burlington Magazine, vol. 136, January 1994, p. 64, no. XVII, N1 B87 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available iOnline : JSTOR
Gallery Label:
Moore produced an enormous number of small maquettes over the course of his career and they played an important part in his artistic process. A selection of them is displayed here. As he explained: “Sometimes I make ten or twenty maquettes for every one that I use in a large scale—the others may get rejected. If a maquette keeps its interest enough for me to want to realize it as a full-scale final work, then I might make a working model in an intermediate size, in which changes will be made before going to the real, full-sized sculpture.” Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016