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Lot Essay
Conçue par Henry Moore en 1983 vers la fin de sa vie, Female torso est manifeste de la quintessence du style propre au grand sculpteur. Dans cette sculpture aux formes sensuelles et biomorphiques, Moore a transformé le corps humain en un assemblage de parties organiques abstraites, illustrant la capacité unique du sculpteur à équilibrer l’abstraction et la figuration et a élargir le potentiel expressif de la forme humaine. Moore s'est tout d'abord plongé dans l’art primitif, archaïque, souvent non occidental et prend son inspiration dans l’Amérique du Sud et l’Afrique. Rejetant au début de sa carrière les œuvres de l’Antiquité européenne, Moore trouve par la suite une grande source d’inspiration dans les sculptures classiques de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine. Dans la présente œuvre, l’artiste britannique rend hommage aux bustes antiques tout en les réinterprétant dans son langage sculptural unique.
Conceived in 1983, Female torso dates from the late phase of Henry Moore’s career, exemplifying the quintessential qualities of the great sculptor’s distinctive style. Composed of sensuous, biomorphic forms, in this Female torso, Moore has transformed the human body into an arrangement of abstracted organic parts, encapsulating the sculptor’s unique ability to balance abstraction and figuration and expand the expressive potential of the human form. At first, Moore immersed himself in primitive, archaic, often non-Western art, taking inspiration from South America and Africa. Having at the beginning of his career rejected the work of European Antiquity, Moore later turned to the classical sculpture of Greece and Rome as another vital source of inspiration, the present work recalling antique busts despite having been entirely reinterpreted by the British artist with his own unique sculptural language.
Conceived in 1983, Female torso dates from the late phase of Henry Moore’s career, exemplifying the quintessential qualities of the great sculptor’s distinctive style. Composed of sensuous, biomorphic forms, in this Female torso, Moore has transformed the human body into an arrangement of abstracted organic parts, encapsulating the sculptor’s unique ability to balance abstraction and figuration and expand the expressive potential of the human form. At first, Moore immersed himself in primitive, archaic, often non-Western art, taking inspiration from South America and Africa. Having at the beginning of his career rejected the work of European Antiquity, Moore later turned to the classical sculpture of Greece and Rome as another vital source of inspiration, the present work recalling antique busts despite having been entirely reinterpreted by the British artist with his own unique sculptural language.