Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Upright Motive No.8
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Upright Motive No.8
Date1955-56
Artwork TypeSculpture
Catalogue NumberLH 388 cast a
Mediabronze
Dimensionsartwork (including base): 207 × 60 × 56.5 cm
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1979
More InformationBetween 1955 and 1979 Henry Moore made nine column-like sculptures which he called 'upright motives'. He generated ideas for these sculptures by balancing forms on top of one another and by pressing lines of objects such as stones, bones, bolts and tools into clay. When enlarged, these experimanets resulted ins culptures with intriguing nooks and crannies, deep grooves and truncated forms. The final works are reminiscent of North-West American totem poles and prehistoric standing stones, or natrual forms like trees or stalagmites.
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