Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Recumbent Figure by Henry Moore.
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Bib. Number0006047
Recumbent Figure by Henry Moore.
Author/EditorTHOMPSON David.
PublisherListener
Place PublishedLondon
Year1965
Date & Collation(25 Nov) Cover,860-861(2 illus).
LanguageEnglish
More InformationPainting of the Month. From a broadcast appreciation of Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone now in the Tate Gallery, which takes in Moore's use of holes, stone as the medium, and Human figure and Landscape. Chacmool is the front cover illustration. Woman and landscape formal treatment and emotional expression are all equal parts of this sculpture... He gives us a woman who is a landscape looking much as she might do if she had been turned to stone centuries ago and the elements had been eroding her into strangely beautiful and evocative shapes ever since...Moore's reclining figures have never lost that masculine alertness nor have they become as woman voluptuous or yielding. On the other hand they express their sexual role in a profound passivity. They are forever waiting while the seasons come and go and the elements rage around them and mould them to their will... In ancient mythologies it is always the earth who is a woman and her lover is the sky. Moore always stresses this identification by thinking of his figures in outdoor settings..." See also 0006054."