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0007100
Author/Editor: BOWNESS Alan.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1959
Date & Collation: (31 May)..
Description: Note on Working Model for U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure, 1957 bronze on exhibit in the Marlborough exhibition (See 0007062): it seems alive and is made more vital by the tension that arises between the odd alert head and the disproportionately large lower part of the body.""
0012346
Author/Editor: HAYTER William.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (12 July)..
Description: Short letter relating Moore's views on the Elgin Marbles to Sir William Hayter when he was a Trustee of the British Museum. Moore was against their return to Greece, saying It's architects who want to push sculptures up into the air where no one can see them. Sculptors like them to be on the ground where people can see them properly and preferably touch them."
In a follow-up letter captioned Henry Moore Out of Touch Professor Robert Browning suggests that sculpture should be left where the artist placed it. Probably Observer 19 July 1987 (but labelled 12.7.87)."
In a follow-up letter captioned Henry Moore Out of Touch Professor Robert Browning suggests that sculpture should be left where the artist placed it. Probably Observer 19 July 1987 (but labelled 12.7.87)."
0012295
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (15 Feb)..(1 illus).
Description: Warrior with Shield, 1953-1954 bronze is to be returned to Florence on permanent loan, provided it is displayed properly and treated with respect. It was shipped back to the Henry Moore Foundation in 1985 after it was found neglected and half-hidden.
0007236
Author/Editor: WALLIS Nevile.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1958
Date & Collation: (22 June)..(1 Moore illus).
Description: Includes a brief mention of Marlborough exhibition (See 0007205): a man deeply conscious of human values.""
0000275
Author/Editor: BAILEY Martin.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (20 April)..(1 illus).
Description: News note of fake letter promising exhibition at Tate Gallery to Kwan Nam in exchange for Henry Moore exhibition in Seoul.
0005185
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (21 July)..(1 illus).
Description: Review of the Tate Gallery exhibition (See 0005063). Moore may be the last great champion of man.""
0002806
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (23 July) 17,20(1 illus).
Description: A large photograph by Jane Bown of Henry Moore with Sheep Piece, 1971-1972 bronze accompanies this report of a visit to Much Hadham on the eve of Moore's 80th birthday. Describes the estate, Moore's art collection and his own sculpture in the grounds and his love of nature. Extracted in Atlas World Press Review, October 1978 (See 0002918). See also 0010463.
0005197
Author/Editor: GALE John.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1968
Date & Collation: (28 July) 17(1 illus).
Description: Full-page report of visit with Moore at Much Hadham; discussing the place of art, Religious belief, Titles of art works, Forte dei Marmi, the Human figure, working from Maquettes rather than Drawings, the Open Air, and the importance of working.
For extracts in German from this interview see 0005263. See also 0005707.
For extracts in German from this interview see 0005263. See also 0005707.
0002863
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1978
Date & Collation: (12 Nov)..(1 blank illus).
Description: Intended as a photograph of sculpture in Kensington Gardens, but only the caption was printed (due to an industrial dispute) announcing that five bronzes are to stay in the park longer than originally planned.
0005412
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (5 March)..(1 illus).
Description: Short discussion of points raised about open air siting being preferable to Tate Gallery housing the Moore gift. Letters appeared in the Observer of 9 March 1967 under the heading Sites for Henry Moore.
0007382
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: (23 June)..(1 illus).
Description: Note on Moore at work on model for U.N.E.S.C.O. Reclining Figure, 1957-1958 travertine marble.
0012476
Author/Editor: HOARE Sarajane.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (12 April) 52-55(2 Moore illus).
Description: Observer Magazine feature on Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition (See 0010880), mentioning Moore commissions and illustrating two Moore fabrics.
0012473
Author/Editor: HARRISON Martin.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (11 Jan) 18-21(1 Moore illus).
Description: Observer Magazine feature on Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition 14 Jan-8 March 1987 (See 0000661). Illustrations Henry Moore London 1950" photoportrait."
0007392
Author/Editor: MOORE Henry.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: (24 Nov) 3(5 illus).
Description: Voice of the artist, 1. Moore writes of a quality he finds in artists he admires most (Masaccio, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne), namely a disturbing element a distortion giving evidence of a struggle of some sort". Moore explains how Rembrandt copied Mantegna. "One cannot change one's nature. Artists try to debate all the time what they do instead of seeing that there is something in the opposite. No one really knows anything unless he knows also the opposite... I personally believe that all life is a conflict.... And you have to die too which is the opposite of living. One must try to find a synthesis to come to terms with opposite qualities... Perfectionist art does not move me... All that is bursting with energy is disturbing not perfect. It is the quality of life. The other is the quality of the ideal... All primitive art is disturbed or an experience of power not perfectionist... This disturbing quality of life goes hand in hand with the disturbing quality of our time... Never once did I want to make what I thought of as a 'beautiful' woman... I do not consider our age to be worse than others... For life every period is a terrible period... No art has ever existed and no artist has ever created out of real despair. To be an artist is the opposite of being in a state of despair. To be an artist is to believe in life..."
This text is reprinted in Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627) and for other versions see also 0007533."
This text is reprinted in Henry Moore on Sculpture (See 0005627) and for other versions see also 0007533."
0012520
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (8 Nov)..(1 Moore illus).
Description: Feature in M: the Observer magazine on Jane Bown's Men of Consequence (See 0000021). Illustrates Henry Moore 1968" a photoportrait of Moore with a camera at Much Hadham."
0015076
Author/Editor: HARRIES Richard.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1992
Date & Collation: (19 April)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of a Mother and Child bronze, and opening quotation by Moore that artists have to be religious. In article by Bishop of Oxford.
0009338
Author/Editor: WILENSKI R.H.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1931
Date & Collation: (12 April)..
Description: Review of the Leicester Galleries exhibition (See 0009327) described as a landmark in the history of English sculpture. Mr Moore carves strangely distorted figures mother and child groups that seem to have grown in stone nudes that resemble no known mortals but are nevertheless instinct with life. His work makes exceptional demands on the spectator. For his aims exceed the bounds of European experience of sculpture." Wilenski writes of "the mysterious quality that gives them their peculiar life" foresees ridicule and abuse and concludes that "Mr Moore's progress will depend as much on his power to combat opposition as on his power to solve the problems of his art"."
0005503
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (5 Nov)..
Description: Gosling expresses his pleasure at the unveiling of Knife Edge Two Piece, 1962-1965 bronze in Abingdon Gardens.
0005460
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (16 July)..
Description: Short review of Marlborough exhibition (See 0005369), seeing the works as unsuited to gallery and artificial light conditions.
0005513
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1967
Date & Collation: (3 Dec)..(1 illus).
Description: Close-up, angled photograph of the Edith Sitwell memorial: Hand Relief No. 1, 1952 bronze.
0003165
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1977
Date & Collation: (5 June)..
Description: Brief note on Moore's view of the Royal Academy. The R.A. does not matter to me. I still dislike what they stand for. There never was any falling out with them though there never was any falling in.""
0005730
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: (17 July)..
Description: Short review of Marlborough exhibition (See 0005664) stressing the sensitivity and continued creative energy of the mature artist.
0005753
Author/Editor: GOSLING Nigel.
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 1966
Date & Collation: (30 Oct)..
Description: Brief and slightly unsympathetic review of pages from the Shelter Sketchbooks at Marlborough (See 0005670), which are seen as overshadowed by greater works by Moore.
0021274
Author/Editor: DAY Elizabeth
Publisher: Observer
Place Published: London
Year: 2008
Date & Collation: 2008 (27 Jul) 1,6-7...(4 illus)
Description: Interview with Mary Moore, which took place inside Hoglands, on the occasion of the Hauser & Wirth exhibition, Henry Moore Ideas for Sculpture, (see 0021356). People pages of the Review section. Topics include:
Reassessing Moore's work: Day states: His reclining figures many of them bought up by city corporations to display in arid public spaces became a sort of sculptural muzak for commuters"; Mary's hope that her fathers work will be re-evaluated to create a lasting legacy: "He invented a language we now take for granted as part of our vocabulary"; brief mention of Shelter Drawings: "it's not all just syrupy or touchy-feely"; Hoglands and Archivist Michael Phipps: "rather too many fruit bowls"; oore's 'niceness': "He very seldom had rages... I can remember my father being utterly shocked when I used a swear word because it showed disrespect. He wasn't a prima-dona a diva-type artist. He grew up with certain values"; Henry and Irina's marriage: "She was entirely the moon to my father's sun"; Peggy Guggenheim: "everywhere she went her boyfriend had to carry a whoopee cushion that she used to sit on. I think she had bad piles or some sort of back injury"; Mary's boyfriends causing 'familial disharmony': "they were too tired of disapproving to protest" to her marriage to Raymond Danowski; the setting up of the Henry Moore Foundation subsequent fall out and legal battle: "of course I regret it. I'm sure we all regret it". Some basic biographical points for both Henry and Mary are also included. Four Moore illustrations show Mary Moore with her father - helping as a young child; as a young woman; and finally Mary alone in the Bourne Maquette studio. Front page shows Moore's King and Queen 1952-53 bronze (LH 350).