Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points
{{Short description|Sculpture series by Henry Moore}}
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| title = Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points
| caption = Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points
Düsseldorf Hofgarten, Germany
| artist = Henry Moore
| year = 1969–70
| wikidata = Q4014541
| type = Bronze
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| length_metric = 365
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Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, catalogued as LH 606, and created in 1969–70.{{cite web|url=http://www.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/germany/dusseldorf/hofgarten/two-piece-reclining-figure-points|title=Henry Moore – Works in Public – Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points 1969–70 (LH 606)|work=henry-moore.org}}
Editions
It was a bronze edition of 7; the artist's copy ("0/7") is in Kew Gardens in London, loaned by the Henry Moore Foundation{{cite web|url=http://www.kew.org/henry-moore/explore/sculpture18.shtml|title=What's On|work=kew.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519083853/http://www.kew.org/henry-moore/explore/sculpture18.shtml|archivedate=2011-05-19}} another in the Hofgarten, Düsseldorf (illustrated),{{cite web|url=http://www.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/germany/dusseldorf/hofgarten/two-piece-reclining-figure-points|title=Henry Moore – Works in Public – Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points 1969–70 (LH 606)|work=henry-moore.org}} and one at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.{{cite web |url=http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/in_depth.asp?key=33&subkey=102 |title=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Artists Collected in Depth |accessdate=2011-04-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171227/http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/in_depth.asp?key=33&subkey=102 |archivedate=2011-06-29 }}{{cite web|url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_74.1|title=Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points|website=Hirsshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|access-date=16 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216212111/https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_74.1|archive-date=16 February 2022}} The plaster model is at the Art Gallery of Ontario.{{cite web|url=http://www.ago.net/henry-moore-sculpture-centre|title=Henry Moore Sculpture Centre – AGO Art Gallery of Ontario|work=ago.net}} In 2008, an example traveled to the New York Botanical Garden,{{cite web|url=http://www.artadox.com/henry-moore-in-new-york/|title=Henry Moore in New York|author=artguru|work=artadox.com}}{{cite web|url=http://newyork.timeout.com/things-to-do/this-week-in-new-york/22348/moore-to-love|title=Moore to love|work=Time Out New York|date=30 September 2024 }} and the Denver Botanic Gardens.{{cite web|url=http://blog.elysianstudiosart.com/2011/01/colorado-art-tour-henry-moore-at-denver.html|title=Art Tour: Henry Moore at Denver Botanical Gardens|work=elysianstudiosart.com|date=9 January 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://ewespecial.blogspot.com/2010/08/henry-moore-sculptures-in-garden.html|title=EWESPECIAL|author=Cheryl McWilliams|work=ewespecial.blogspot.com|date=27 August 2010}}
History
Among Moore's post war abstract bronzes, it is a part of the Two Piece Reclining Figure series.{{cite web|url=http://www2.metrotimes.com/arts/story.asp?id=7431|title=Sculpture is like a journey|work=Detroit Metro Times}} It can be read as one figure or two.A Garden for Art, Valerie J. Fletcher, LOC # 97-61991, p.72
I did the first one in two pieces almost without intending to. But after I had done it, then the second one became a conscious idea. I realised what an advantage a separated two- piece composition could have in relating figures to landscape. Knees and breasts are mountains.Once these two parts become separated you don't expect it to be a naturalistic figure; therefore you can justifiably make it look like a landscape or a rock. If it's a single figure, you can guess what it's going to be like. If it's in two pieces there's a bigger surprise, you have more unexpected views; therefore the special advantage over painting—of having the possibility of many different views—is more fully explored. The front view doesn't enable you to foresee the back view. As you move round it, the two parts overlap or they open up and there's space in between.{{cite web |url=http://mailchristies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1609508 |title=Henry Moore (1898-1986) | Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points | Christie's |accessdate=2013-02-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714021247/http://mailchristies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=1609508 |archivedate=2011-07-14 }}
Reviews
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A work like Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points, from 1969, has the feel that Moore aimed at — but didn't always achieve — of form as primal matter.{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699248,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110030115/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699248,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 10, 2008|title=Making the Most of Henry Moore|date=2 January 2008|work=Time}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/hirshhorn/hirshhorn5.html Bluffton]
- [http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0000458.htm DC Memorials]
- [http://www.bigartmob.com/view/2942/two-piece-reclining-figure-points Big Art Mob]
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