Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Relief No.1
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Relief No.1
Date1959
Artwork TypeSculpture Summary
Catalogue NumberLH 450
Mediabronze
Dimensionspublished dimension: 223.5 cm (88 in.)
Ownershipedition summary - see individual casts for ownership
More InformationEdition summary
Bronze edition of 6+1, cast 1959
Primary: plaster, 1959
'In the bronze sculpture Relief No.1 you know the middle and you know where the shoulder is. It has a centre, a kernel, and an organic logic'. Henry Moore, Hedgecoe (ed.), Henry Spencer Moore, 1968, p.391.
Bronze edition of 6+1, cast 1959
Primary: plaster, 1959
'In the bronze sculpture Relief No.1 you know the middle and you know where the shoulder is. It has a centre, a kernel, and an organic logic'. Henry Moore, Hedgecoe (ed.), Henry Spencer Moore, 1968, p.391.
Relief No.1 1959 is a rare example of a free-standing relief sculpture in Moore’s work. The front surface comprises an undulating arrangement of shapes that suggest the schematic form of a female figure, which appears to be embedded within, or emerging from, the flat ground. Moore’s interest in relief sculpture in the late 1950s developed from architectural commissions and a trip to Pompeii, where he saw casts of bodies half buried in volcanic ash.
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