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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

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1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore
1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore
1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

1950
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This exhibition was organised by the British Council as part of a tour that also went to Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Athens and Stockholm between 1949-1952.
2022-23 St Albans/Doncaster, Henry Moore: Drawing in the Dark
16 December 2022 - 26 August 2023
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.
photo: Rob Harris
01 April 2022 - 30 October 2022
Henry Moore: The Sixties presents a fascinating insight into Moore’s life and work during this pivotal decade in his career. The exhibition reveals the dramatic shift in his working practices that enabled him to work on an increasingly monumental scale; his move towards greater abstraction; and the enormous global demand for his work during this period, along with the controversy this generated. The exhibition feautures sculptures, drawings, graphics and archive material drawn entirely from the Henry Moore Foundation’s collection.