Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Search
Skip to main content
Refine Results
Item Type
Year*
Author/Editor
Title*
Publisher
1 results
for
*
0021516
Author/Editor: DE VERE WHITE Terence.
Publisher: Routeledge & Kegan Paul
Place Published: London
Year: 1957
Date & Collation: 184pp.
Description: Scenes from Irish political & social life, 1916-1954, in the form of imaginative autobiography. Pages 125-127 De Vere White recounts his, doomed, attempt to purchase a Henry Moore reclining figure, from the Leicester Galleries London, for the National Gallery in Dublin. Descriptive mention of King and Queen. Text recalls controversy surrounding the sculpture; it was rumoured that a spiritual leader had pronounced it irreligious in conception"."