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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Reclining Figure: Hand

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Reclining Figure: Hand
Reclining Figure: Hand
Reclining Figure: Hand

Reclining Figure: Hand

Date1979
Artwork TypeSculpture
Catalogue NumberLH 709 cast 0
Mediabronze
Dimensionsartwork: 167 × 221 × 132 cm
Signature

stamped Moore, 0/9

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1986
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The maquette for this work combines a vertical piece of bone attached to a flat section of flint. Henry Moore was a longstanding collector of organic objects. As a student, he visited the Natural History Museum and began amassing bones, stones and shells, which lined the shelves of his studio. Echoes of the curves and crevices of rock and bone can be seen in this figure. 

The sculpture's title derives from its almost completely abstracted left hand, which rests at the centre of the composition. In preliminary models for the work, this was emphasised by lines denoting the closed gaps between the figure's fingers.
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