Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
BBC Radio 4 Front Row
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Bib. Number0023043
BBC Radio 4 Front Row
PublisherBritish Broadcasting Corporation
Place PublishedLondon
Year2005
Date & Collation9 minutes 24 seconds.A266
LanguageEnglish
More InformationOn the occasion of the exhibition of Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture, at The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green. Front Row presenter Mark Lawson interviews with Timothy Llewellyn, conservator Malcolm Woodward and curator Anita Feldman Bennet; Mirror Knife Edge 1977 bronze (LH 714); The Arch 1979-80 travertine (LH 503c) in Kensington Gardens, London; Moore as Yorkshire man; visit to Perry Green; Bourne Maquette Studio (collection of stones and flints); Moore didn’t want sculpture to be sub-servient to architecture. In response to the deterioration of The Arch, Italian American tycoon Carlo Bilotti met the Royal Parks to offer to buy the sculpture and replace it with a replica. This was denied.