Draped Seated Figure Against Curved Wall

Details

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Draped Seated Figure Against Curved Wall
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.)
Length: 13¼ in. (33.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1956-1957; this bronze version cast at a later date

Literature

W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, p. 8, no. 176 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 176).
R. Melville, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 524 (another cast illustrated).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, London, 1986, vol. 3, p. 32, no. 423 (another cast illustrated, p. 33).

Lot Essay

During the 1950s Moore received commissions for large sculptures to be placed in architectural settings, most importantly Draped Reclining Figure (Bowness, no. 336) for the Time-Life Building in London and the travertine marble Reclining Figure (Bowness, no. 416) for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The problems of relating the figure to its architectural surroundings continued to fascinate the artist and during this period, he produced about a dozen sculptures on a smaller scale in which the composition incorporates the figure and an architectural backdrop.

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