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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

2011 Hatfield House, Moore at Hatfield

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photo: Jen Hicks
2011 Hatfield House, Moore at Hatfield
photo: Jen Hicks
photo: Jen Hicks

2011 Hatfield House, Moore at Hatfield

23 April 2011 - 02 October 2011
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The childhood home of Queen Elizabeth I, Hatfield House is situated 20 miles from London in the Hertfordshire countryside. The gardens at Hatfield provide a harmonious but constantly changing setting for this display of Henry Moore's larger works.

This exhibition of sculptures from the collection of The Henry Moore Foundation, in the year of Hatfield's 400th anniversary celebration, is the first outdoor exhibition in this country of Moore's sculptures since 2007, and his first solo exhibition in the grounds of an English country house. Comprising fourteen bronzes and one large fibreglass piece, the exhibition has been selected by Anita Feldman, Head of collections and Exhibitions at The Henry Moore Foundation, to represent the artist's iconic themes.

Installation view of Henry Moore: Configuration at the Henry Moore Institute 2021. photo: John …
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Exhibition Info: Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.