Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2006 Barcelona, CaixaForum, Henry Moore
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2006 Barcelona, CaixaForum, Henry Moore
19 July 2006 - 29 October 2006
A major Henry Moore retrospective has now opened in Barcelona.
Encompassing six decades of the artist’s work, this exhibition of
approximately one hundred sculptures and seventy drawings presents a
comprehensive display of Moore’s achievements in a wide variety of
media, including both small scale and monumental bronzes, original
plasters and a selection of found objects from the artist’s studio at
Perry Green.
Spain held a special significance for Moore, who visited the north of the country during a touring holiday in 1934 and campaigned for the Republican cause some two years later. The powerful and primitive forms he found in the famous cave paintings at Altamira were a tremendous source of inspiration, both immediately in drawings and carvings, and later in bronzes such as Woman 1957-58 (LH 439).
Spain held a special significance for Moore, who visited the north of the country during a touring holiday in 1934 and campaigned for the Republican cause some two years later. The powerful and primitive forms he found in the famous cave paintings at Altamira were a tremendous source of inspiration, both immediately in drawings and carvings, and later in bronzes such as Woman 1957-58 (LH 439).
16 December 2022 - 26 August 2023
Exhibition Info: Drawing in the Dark is the largest exhibition to date of Moore’s coalmining drawings, completed in 1942 for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. When Moore was asked to record the coalminers working to power wartime Britain, he chose to visit the mine his father had worked in, Wheldale Colliery in Castleford, where he spent a week drawing from observation. Subsequently, he worked from memory to create the remaining drawings which were all completed within six months. This fascinating body of work reveals the back-breaking labour endured by nearly 3/4 million miners as they made their vital contribution to Britain's war effort, while also providing new insights into Moore’s life and artistic process.
29 March - 29 August 2010 (Perry Green), 3 February - 3 April 2011 (Leeds)
03 July 2004 - 03 October 2004