Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
1972 Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Mostra di Henry Moore
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1972 Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Mostra di Henry Moore
20 May 1972 - 08 October 1972
The most significant solo exhibition of Moore's lifetime and one of the largest exhibitions of Moore's work ever held, Mostra di Henry Moore was shown in the Forte di Belvedere, just south of the River Arno in Florence. 2,000 people were at the opening of the exhibition, and 345,000 saw the show over the course of its run. Moore's biographer, Roger Berthoud, describes the Florence show as a "triumph" and "a kind of apotheosis, with news of its magnificence spreading around the world".
The show included some of Moore's largest works on the battlements of the Belvedere, some of which (including Locking Piece and Large Two Forms) were cast in fibreglass for the exhibition..
16 September 2022 - 31 March 2023
Exhibition Info: 50 years after the exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere, the English master Henry Moore returns to Florence. Two sculptures, Large Interior Form and Family Group, are exhibited respectively in Piazza della Signoria and outside the front entrance of the Abbey of San Miniato al Monte.
29 March - 29 August 2010 (Perry Green), 3 February - 3 April 2011 (Leeds)
03 July 2004 - 03 October 2004
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Exhibition Info: Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.
