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Six Mother and Child Studies is an original contemporary artwork realized by the British artist Henry Moore in 1976.
Original aquatint and etching. Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil: Moore. Limited edition series numbered on the lower left corner in pencil: 24/90.
Printed and published by Il Bisonte, Florence.
Good conditions.
Reference: G.Cramer, Henry Moore, The Graphic Work , ed. Cramer 1986 repr. N ° 426
Henry Moore (1898-1986) focused on the hole, or void, as an important element in sculptural design. His well-known reclining female nudes combine the organic jargon central to Moore’s philosophy: bone shapes, eroded rocks, and geologic formations to communicate the human form’s fluidity, dynamism, and evocative nature. The reclining figures were originally inspired by a photograph Moore acquired of a Chac Mool from pre-Colombian Mexico. They are distinctive of Moore’s work in exploiting the natural beauty of different materials: he asserted that every material has its own individual qualities and these qualities could play a role in the creative process.
The abstracted shapes suggest Surrealist biomorphic forms, but Moore’s leaning women are also powerful earth mothers whose sinuous forms and hollows suggest nurturing human energy. Furthermore, the female body shapes evoke the contours of the Yorkshire hills of Moore’s childhood and the wind-polished surfaces of weathered wood and stone. Moore enhanced the references to landscape and to Surrealist organic forms by alternating mass and void, based on the enthralling qualities of cavities in nature. The hole was not an abstract shape. It represented the mysterious fascination of caves in hillsides and cliffs.
Henry Moore’s sculptures, although abstracted, always remain recognizable. Moore alleged that the simple and massive shapes of his statues expressed a universal truth beyond the physical world. As he said, “My sculpture is becoming less representational, less an outward visual copy […]but only because I believe that in this way I can present the human psychological content of my work with greatest directness and intensity.”
- Creator:Henry Moore (1898 - 1986, British)
- Creation Year:1976
- Dimensions:Height: 25.4 in (64.5 cm)Width: 18.12 in (46 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
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Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures, which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other prints and graphic works on paper.
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his Yorkshire birthplace.
Moore became well known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfil large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Despite this, he lived frugally; most of the money he earned went toward endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.
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