Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2004 Lewes & Dieppe, Henry Moore: Land and Sea
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2004 Lewes & Dieppe, Henry Moore: Land and Sea
03 July 2004 - 03 October 2004
Sculptures, maquettes and works on paper including photographs, drawings
and graphics from the collection of the Henry Moore Foundation will be
at the centre of a major cultural event that will take place as part of
an Anglo-French project designed to strengthen the links between Lewes
and Dieppe. The work by Henry Moore will be presented in three
exhibitions to be shown concurrently at Lewes Town Hall, Charleston
House and the Chateau Musée de Dieppe and will provide a focus for
educational projects based around the event.
The exhibition, entitled Henry Moore: Land and Sea, draws on Moore’s continual investigation of the relationship between form and landscape. Moore sought to draw parallels between the human figure and the shapes found in the landscape - rolling hills, craggy rocks and crevices, flints, stones, bones, cliff-faces, shells and drift-wood, using found objects as inspiration for his work. This approach to Moore’s practice fits entirely with the landscape of Lewes, with the rolling South Downs, chalky terrain and flint inclusions, and Dieppe for its proximity to the sea and its maritime collections at the Musée de Dieppe. The show at Lewes and Charleston House will have pieces centred on the theme of landscape, while Dieppe will reflect a sea-based aspect in Moore’s work.
Items on loan from the Henry Moore Foundation to the Lewes exhibition include 16 photographs, as well as maquettes and sculptures such as Two Standing Figures 1981, travertine marble, Resting Animal 1980, plaster, Bone Head 1983, plaster and Two Standing Figures: Concretions 1983, bronze. Works on display in Dieppe include found objects collected and used by Moore including a Minky whale vertebrae, driftwood mounted as an animal head and a Vanuatu canoe prod. Sculptures include Mother and Child: Arch 1959, bronze, Head: Boat Form 1963, bronze, Large Totem Head 1968, bronze, Standing Woman: Shell Skirt 1975, bronze and Egg Form: Pebbles 1977, bronze. Works on paper include Wreck 1970, etching, Shipwreck II 1972, lithograph and Storm at Sea 1970, etching and drypoint.
The exhibition, entitled Henry Moore: Land and Sea, draws on Moore’s continual investigation of the relationship between form and landscape. Moore sought to draw parallels between the human figure and the shapes found in the landscape - rolling hills, craggy rocks and crevices, flints, stones, bones, cliff-faces, shells and drift-wood, using found objects as inspiration for his work. This approach to Moore’s practice fits entirely with the landscape of Lewes, with the rolling South Downs, chalky terrain and flint inclusions, and Dieppe for its proximity to the sea and its maritime collections at the Musée de Dieppe. The show at Lewes and Charleston House will have pieces centred on the theme of landscape, while Dieppe will reflect a sea-based aspect in Moore’s work.
Items on loan from the Henry Moore Foundation to the Lewes exhibition include 16 photographs, as well as maquettes and sculptures such as Two Standing Figures 1981, travertine marble, Resting Animal 1980, plaster, Bone Head 1983, plaster and Two Standing Figures: Concretions 1983, bronze. Works on display in Dieppe include found objects collected and used by Moore including a Minky whale vertebrae, driftwood mounted as an animal head and a Vanuatu canoe prod. Sculptures include Mother and Child: Arch 1959, bronze, Head: Boat Form 1963, bronze, Large Totem Head 1968, bronze, Standing Woman: Shell Skirt 1975, bronze and Egg Form: Pebbles 1977, bronze. Works on paper include Wreck 1970, etching, Shipwreck II 1972, lithograph and Storm at Sea 1970, etching and drypoint.
14 October 2010 - 15 February 2011
15 November 2004 - 31 January 2005
