Henry Moore, 1898–1986, British, Half-Figure Mother and Child, 1983
- Title:
- Half-Figure Mother and Child
- Date:
- 1983
- Materials & Techniques:
- Bronze
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 5 inches (12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed on back of base, proper right: "Moore [underlined] 8/8"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Henry Moore
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B1986.27.6
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- abstract art | child | figure study | mother
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1502
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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
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Henry Moore - The Mother and Child (Hofstra Museum, 1987-09-01 - 1988-04-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculpture, , v. 1-6, Lund Humphries, London, 1977 - 1999, pp. 58- 59, vol. 6, cat. 898, pl. 122, NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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