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0001041
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1983
Date & Collation: .207pp.Illus.Bibliog.Prefatory texts by Yves DAGENAIS, Hélène LAMARCHE.Text in English and French.
Description: Travelling exhibition of over 200 works collected by David and Eleanore Morrice and bequeathed to Museum. Includes five Moore Bronzes 1945-1968 listed on pages 184-185, and discussed briefly by Janet M. BROOKE in the section entitled 20th Century Sculpture: collecting at mid-century" with three Moore illustrations one in colour. Notes the origins of Moore's work in natural forms and within the theme of the Reclining Figure. The five works are documented with illustrations on pages 112-113."
0021329
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 2008
Date & Collation: (Sep-Dec)35pp.Illus
Description: Booklet containing details of forthcoming events at the MMFA. One Moore illus:
Page 13: Maquette for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968 bronze, (LH 578) illustrating Le Corps Humain, Entre L'art at la Science lecture by Linda Moussakova on the subject of anatomy.
0013960
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1985
Date & Collation: .90pp.Illus.Bibliog.Foreword by Janet M. BROOKE.Research and text by Vesna DJOKIC.Text in English and French.
Description: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Collection. A circulating exhibition funded by the National Museums of Canada. 43 works with documentation.
Exhibits 25-32(9 illus) Henry Moore: eight Bronzes 1945-1968. There is also a full-page colour plate of Reclining Figure, 1945 bronze.
Moore is cited as one of the principal formulators of organic abstraction in sculpture. Moore saw the whole of nature as an endless demonstration of organic shape and form." Mentions his use of voids as negative volumes and the Reclining Figure theme. "Their non-human appearance creates an uncanny slightly Existential look reminiscent of skeletal remains." Mentions Moore's use of drapery and his studies of bones. He expressed himself "in a universal language through the use of basic form"."
Exhibits 25-32(9 illus) Henry Moore: eight Bronzes 1945-1968. There is also a full-page colour plate of Reclining Figure, 1945 bronze.
Moore is cited as one of the principal formulators of organic abstraction in sculpture. Moore saw the whole of nature as an endless demonstration of organic shape and form." Mentions his use of voids as negative volumes and the Reclining Figure theme. "Their non-human appearance creates an uncanny slightly Existential look reminiscent of skeletal remains." Mentions Moore's use of drapery and his studies of bones. He expressed himself "in a universal language through the use of basic form"."
0009723
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: 2pp.Typewriter script.Text in French.
Description: 7 October 1968 press release on the Montreal showing of 0005367. Describes the scope of the exhibition, notes Moore's works on permanent sites in Canada, and quotes from the catalogue introduction.
0018505
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal.
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: 230pp.Illus.Prefatory texts.
Description: Photographs and short commentaries on 100 works in the Museum.
66-67 Item 31: Henry Moore: La Parze.
(Woman, 1957-1958 bronze.
66-67 Item 31: Henry Moore: La Parze.
(Woman, 1957-1958 bronze.
0010009
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: 2pp.Typewriter script.
Description: 6 October 1978 press release, also issued in French edition, on gift to the Museum by Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern of La Parze, on loan to the Museum since 1976. Also known as Seated Torso and Woman, 1957-1958 bronze.
0017993
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1960
Date & Collation: 200pp.Illus.Preface and Introduction by Evan H. TURNER.
Description: Handbook presenting 200 objects in the permanent collections.
128(1 illus) Henry Moore: Reclining Figure: Internal and External Form, 1951 bronze.
128(1 illus) Henry Moore: Reclining Figure: Internal and External Form, 1951 bronze.
0017884
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1998
Date & Collation: 32pp.Illus.
Description: Eccentrically designed, undated brochure calling for funds for the Museum.
Page 11 is a full-page photograph printed in blue of Woman, 1957-1958 bronze also called La Parze.
Page 11 is a full-page photograph printed in blue of Woman, 1957-1958 bronze also called La Parze.
0009762
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 1969
Date & Collation: 3pp.Typewriter script.
Description: 31 October 1969 press release on presentation to the Museum by the Nathan Cummings Foundation of Large Totem Head, 1968 bronze. The work was unveiled on the Museum's front steps where it will remain on view. Moore apologized that he was unable to attend the unveiling. Provides information on Nathan Cummings.
0023718
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 2017
Date & Collation: 64pp.illus.
Description:
Annual report of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Henry Moore's Standing Mother and Child: Holes, acquired by the museum in this year, included with illus. as part of the list of acquisitions; in the introduction to the list of acquisitions it is specifically mentioned as "a major bronze" by Moore as one of Sean B. Murphy's many gifts to the museum.
0023719
Author/Editor: DESMARAIS Mary-Dailey and GRACE Anne
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal
Year: 2018
Date & Collation: January - April. pp.12-13. illus.
Description:
Article in M: The Magazine of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, discussing the acquisition of three works by Moore: two sculptures, Mother and Child and Three Piece Reclining Figure No.1 and a drawing, Reclining Figures: Ideas for Sculpture. Each work illus., with prose discussion of the provenance and the work's position in Moore's oeuvre.
0023716
Publisher: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place Published: Montreal, Canada
Year: 2017
Date & Collation: 12 December.
Description:
Invitation to the opening of the exhibition Commemorating Dr. Sean B. Murphy (1924-2017): Prints and Drawings from Five Centuries. Recto is a detail of Two Draped Reclining Figures (HMF 3043).