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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Relief No.1

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Photo: Mike Bruce, courtesy of Gagosian
Relief No.1
Photo: Mike Bruce, courtesy of Gagosian
Photo: Mike Bruce, courtesy of Gagosian

Relief No.1

Date1959
Artwork TypeSculpture
Catalogue NumberLH 450 cast 4
Mediabronze
Dimensionsartwork (including base): 228.5 × 144.5 × 88.5 cm
Signaturestamped Moore
Ownershipprivate collection
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Relief No.1 1959 is a rare example of a free-standing relief sculpture in Moore’s work. The front surface comprises an undulating arrangement of shapes that suggest the schematic form of a female figure, which appears to be embedded within, or emerging from, the flat ground. Moore’s interest in relief sculpture in the late 1950s developed from architectural commissions and a trip to Pompeii, where he saw casts of bodies half buried in volcanic ash.

 

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Published References
Photo © Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
LH 450 cast 3
1959
Photography © Tate 2014.  For the supply of this image please contact Tate Images - <a href="ma…
LH 450 cast 0
1959
photo: Norton Simon Entities
LH 450 cast 1
1959
photo: Jonty Wilde 2010
LH 450 cast 6
1959
photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
LH 450 cast 2
1959