child | mother | religious and mythological subject | figure study | Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap (or in front of her bosom) (Mary sometimes represented half-length)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)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:
William Feaver, Images of the Century, The Observer, , 20 September 1981, p. 29, Available online: Proquest Historical Newspapers database Also available on Microfil : Film An Ob7 (SML)Front Matter, Burlington Magazine, vol 107, December 1965, p. iv, N1 B87 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Aso available onlne : JSTORHenry Moore : Sculpture and Drawings, , Lund Humphries, London, 1946-1955, (v. 1) pages are unnumbered, cat. 107a*, NJ18 M79 R38 OVERSIZE (YCBA)In the Sale Rooms, $82,596 for Modern British Works , The Times (London), London, 16 December 1965, p. 6, Available online: The Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfil : Film An T482 (SML)William S. Lieberman, Henry Moore : 60 Years of His Art, , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, London, 1983, pp. 62, 122, NJ18 M79 L54 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of Modern British Drawings, Paintings, and Sculpture : 15 December 1965, Sotheby's, London, December 15 , 1965, pp. 53 and opposite p. 53, lot. 189, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculptues, , vol. 1, Lund Humphries, London, 1977-1999, vol. 1, pp. 13, 138, cat. 224, NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculpture, , v. 1-6, Lund Humphries, London, 1977 - 1999, p. 13; 138, vol. 1, cat. 224, , NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
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