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Henry Moore Furniture

British, 1898-1986

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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Creator: Henry Moore
Henry Moore Abstract Lithograph : Sculptural Objects Professionally Framed
By Henry Moore
Located in Atlanta, GA
Henry Moore Lithograph, entitled Sculptural Objects, circa 1949. Recently professionally framed under UV resistant glass. Printed signature, title and...
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1940s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Henry Moore Furniture

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Henry Moore Color Prints in Vintage Gilt Frames
By Henry Moore
Located in Atlanta, GA
Petite Henry Moore Color Prints in Vintage Gilt Frames, circa 1960s. They have been recently professionally framed in vintage gilt wood frames under UV resistant glass. Clockwise fro...
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Henry Moore Lithograph Studies of Three Standing Figures in Gilt Frame
By Henry Moore
Located in Atlanta, GA
Henry Moore lithograph, entitled Studies of Three Standing Figures, English, circa 1960s. Beautifully framed in a 22 karat gold reeded frame with silk...
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1960s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Henry Moore Furniture

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Henry Moore Modernist Prints
By Henry Moore
Located in Atlanta, GA
Henry Moore prints, from the limited edition folio entitled "The Drawings of Henry Moore", published by Curt Valentin, New York, 1946. They have been professionally matted and framed...
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Signed Henry Moore Poster for Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Sculpture 1977
By Henry Moore
Located in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire
Silver jubilee exhibition poster of sculpture in Battersea park signed and dated by Henry Moore. England, 1977 There is a similar signed copy of this poster in the collection of t...
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20th Century English Modern Henry Moore Furniture

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Henry Moore Color Lithography, circa 1971
By Henry Moore
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Photolithographic reproduction of Henry Moore's work for Bolaffiarte Made in England, circa 1971. Copy 279 of 5000 limited copies. Framed and signe...
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1970s English Modern Vintage Henry Moore Furniture

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Henry Moore Signed Leopard Framed Lithograph from His Animals in the Zoo Series
By Henry Moore
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This signed and numbered lithograph was done by the very well known British artist and sculptor Henry Moore in approximately 1980-1982 in his Modernist style. This lithograph comes f...
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Henry Moore Original Lithograph and Pencil Drawing
By Henry Moore
Located in Roma, IT
This beautiful work features on the front a lithograph from a 1958 drawing by Henry Moore from the series 'Heads, figures and ideas'. on the verso an origi...
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Henry Moore Signed Etching Aquatint Framed Sculptural Ideas
By Henry Moore
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a wonderful, framed etching with color aquatint, "Sculptural Ideas," signed and numbered in lead pencil by Henry Moore, 16/50.  
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Henry Moore, English, 1898-1986, "Eight Sculptural Ideas, Girl Writing"
By Henry Moore
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Henry Moore, English, 1898-1986. "Eight Sculptural Ideas, Girl Writing". Signed in pencil, dated 73 and inscribed Artist's proof. Lithograph. Measures...
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Henry Moore, Standing Nude, Pen, Ink, Charcoal on Paper, Figurative, 1930s
By Henry Moore
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
ARTIST : Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (British 1898-1986) Standing Nude Signed ‘Moore’ (lower right) Signed ‘Henry Moore’ verso Pen and ink charcoal and ink wash on paper Executed circa 1931 Provenance: Bucholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York. Widely respected as one of the most astute dealers in modern art, Valentin organized influential exhibitions and attracted major artists to his Gallery Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles. In the 1960s the gallery was at the forefront for contemporary and modern art exhibiting prominent European artists, including Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. Sothebys, London 1972 Redfern Gallery, London Private Collection, Florida Exhibited: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1950 (currently researching this) Frank Perls, Beverley Hills, 6 British Moderns 16th March -17th April 1950. Perls introduced southern California to artists he believed represented the best modern art of America and Europe. Between 1950 to 1954, Frank Perls Gallery organized the first West coast exhibitions of Joan Miro, Marino Marini, and Alberto Giacometti San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Six British Artists, 1st May – 4th June,1950, no 373.50 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June 1950 (currently researching this) Buchholz Gallery, Curt Valentin, New York, Contemporary Drawings 26th September – 14th October, 1950, No 64 Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, Modern Masters Drawings and Watercolours, No 33 3rd – 29th April, 1967, Literature: Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1930-9, London 1998, volume II, No AG 31.13, illustrated p.48 Sheet height 55.8 cm 22 in. Length 36.1cm., 14 1/4 in. In a silvered, casseta frame Frame height 84 cm. 33 in. length 60 cm., 23 ½ in. The figure is monumental and sculptural; her strength and vitality embodied in a build- up of energy in her body mass. Her presence is conveyed through strength of form and articulation of her body. Whilst her face is treated with reserve, her expression reflects an inner radiance and beauty. Drawing and sculpture were separate practices for Moore. The drawings helped establish Moore’s reputation and were widely seen as complementary presences in their own right. In the 1930’s drawing became a central practice not just as a preliminary to sculpture, and the word ‘drawing’ gradually became less than adequate to describe these works which became recognized by the critics as pictorial art by the end of the 1930’s. As a draughtsman, pictorial artist, or perhaps even painter as he should properly be thought of at this point in his career, Moore was able to work fast with ideas flooding onto the paper, ideas relating to sculpture but which he elaborated and embellished with detail that was essentially pictorial. During the 1930’s pictorial art gave free range to his imagination more readily than sculpture. Pictorial art could reflect on the human condition by means of narratives developed through interaction of internal parts in a way that single-object sculpture could not. Life drawings extend to the early 1930s, but are rare later on, were generally made on larger sheets. ‘I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas which there is not enough time time to realize as sculpture…Every few months, I stop carving for two or three weeks and do life drawing. At one time I used to mix the two, perhaps carving during the day and drawing from a model during the evening. But I found this unsatisfactory – the two activities interfered with each other, for the mental approach to each is different..Stone.. is so different from flesh and blood that one cannot carve directly from life without almost the certainty of ill-treating the material. Drawing and carving are so different that a shape or size or conception which ought to be satisfting in a drawing will be totally wrong realized as stone..In my sculpture I do not draw directly on my memory or observations of a particular object, but rather use whatever comes up from my general fund of knowledge of natural forms’. HM The drawings demonstrate that Moore was a pictorial artist as well as a sculptor. ‘I wonder … very impertinently whether Mr Moore may not be a painter who has taken the wrong turning’. (Raymond Mortimer, critic) Moore’s imagination needed the expressive possibilities of both painting and sculpture. ‘The construction of the human figure, the tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human being much more difficult to get right, in a drawing, than anything else…its not just a matter of training – you can’t understand it without being emotionally involved…it really is a deep, strong fundamental struggle to understand oneself as much as to understand what one’s drawing’. (HM) Moore wanted to express what made a drawn figure real by expressing vitality through organization of form. He liked working quickly so that the vitality of the model was seen as liveliness and he could reflect volume in the drawing. His sketchbook notes show a constant emphasis on the idea that the human body gains strength in drawing from being conceived in terms of mass. He prioritises certain kinds of formal arrangement that stress organization of mass, over representational accuracy. In that way vitality becomes an attribute of form, not something brought in from the outside to give the superficial effect of liveliness. Moore avoided gestures with the hands, preferring what he called ‘pent up energy’ expressed through relation of masses, to the spent energy of limb movements which are rare after his very early work. He also avoided particular facial expression, and any sense of the model using gesture or expression to address the viewer. Curt Valentin and Buchholz Gallery, New York Curt Valentin was born in Hamburg Germany in 1902. After completing his education, Valentin became a modern art dealer in Berlin. In 1934 Valentin returned to Hamburg to work in the Buchholz Gallery. Owned by Karl Buchholz, this gallery maintained two businesses: a bookstore in the front and, in the rear, an art gallery devoted to the modern art classified as degenerate by Hitler. In 1937 Valentin immigrated to the United States with a sufficient number of modern German paintings...
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1930s European Modern Vintage Henry Moore Furniture

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Henry Moore 'Black on Red' Lithograph, Signed and Numbered, 1963
By Henry Moore
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Black and red lithograph by the famed American sculptor Henry Moore. Limited edition of 63/65, signed and numbered in pencil.
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Henry Moore furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

Henry Moore furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of paper and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Henry Moore furniture, although beige editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Henry Moore were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Damien Hirst, David Hockney, and John Piper. Prices for Henry Moore furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at £231 and can go as high as £45,951, while a piece like these, on average, fetch £2,362.
Questions About Henry Moore Furniture
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Henry Moore frequently used the wax resist process in his drawings, which involved sketching the forms in wax crayon and coating the drawing with a wash of gray watercolor. He then went in with black ink, gray and black crayons and white watercolor. Find a selection of Henry Moore artwork from top art dealers around the world on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Henry Moore’s sculptures often represented the connection between the human body and landscapes. The underlying meaning is that humanity is shared with the natural world, and many of his large-scale sculptures were created to compliment the outdoor landscape where they were placed. You’ll find a selection of Henry Moore sculptures and sketches on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Henry Moore used holes in his sculptures to create the illusion that his work was growing from an empty center. His sculptures Oval with Points and Double Oval are two examples of the technique. You'll find a selection of Henry Moore art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Henry Moore moved to London to study art and often visited the British Museum where he was inspired by ancient sculptures from Egypt, Africa and Mexico. His sculptures have a semi-abstract nature, but he often dabbled in other styles of art. Moore even created his own form of modernism with an eye toward the abstract. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Henry Moore was a prolific artist and it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how many pieces of art he created. The Henry Moore Foundation lists that their online catalogue of his works currently features more than 11,000 sculptures, drawings, tapestries, textiles and graphics. That’s a significant number indeed and does not represent all of his contributions to the art world. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.

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