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Reclining Figure: Festival

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Reclining Figure: Festival
Reclining Figure: Festival
Reclining Figure: Festival

Reclining Figure: Festival

Date1951
Artwork TypeSculpture Summary
Catalogue NumberLH 293
Mediabronze
Dimensionsartwork (h x l x d): 106 × 228.6 × 73.7 cm
Ownershipedition summary - see individual casts for ownership
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Edition summary
Bronze edition of 5+1 artist's copy, cast 1951
Foundry: Art Bronze Foundry (Gaskin's)

Current or last known owner - click on the 'related' tab below to find out more about specific works
cast a: private collection
cast b: private collection
cast c: Christie's, London, 30 Jun 2016
cast d: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh: presented by the Arts Council of Great Britain through the Scottish Arts Council 1969
cast e: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
cast f (artist's copy): private collection

plaster, 1951: Tate: Gift of the artist 1978
plaster cast, 1951: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: gift of Henry Moore 1974

Remarks
See more of this work on the BBC's Henry Moore Collection pages at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015xjts, and in particular this clip of the 1951 John Read film showing the plaster being made and then cast in bronze: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006vzcq.
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