Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Upright Motive: Maquette No.1
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Upright Motive: Maquette No.1
Date1955
Artwork TypeSculpture
Catalogue NumberLH 376 plaster
Mediaplaster
Dimensionsartwork (height): 31.4 cm
OwnershipArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: gift of Henry Moore 1974
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"I was asked to do a sculpture for the courtyard of Olivetti's new office building in Milan. I went out too Milan and met the architect and we looked together at the building then in construction . . . A lone lombardy poplar growing behind the building convinced me that a vertical work would act as the correct counterfoil to the horizontal rhythm of the building. The idea grew ultimately into the Upright Motives...."
Henry Moore, 1954
Henry Moore, 1954
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