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0014524
Author/Editor: FRIEDMAN Terry.
Publisher: Leeds Arts Calendar
Place Published: Leeds
Year: 1991
Date & Collation: 1991 12-18(5 illus).Bibliog.
Description: This article is based on material delivered by the author at the University of Florence on 24 May 1989 as the Henry Moore Lecture sponsored by the British Institute of Florence". Reclining Figure 1929 brown Hornton stone was acquired by Leeds City Art Galleries on the occasion of the 1941 exhibition (See 0009049). "How Moore worked towards this early masterpiece one of the supreme achievements of modern sculpture is the subject of this article".
Early press criticism relationship to figure and landscape humanistic approach to the figure and discovery of primitive art particularly through Epstein. Adaptation of Chacmool. Trips to Paris where he saw Cézannes and to Italy. Outlines his reactions to Renaissance artists."