Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Four Standing Figures and One Reclining Figure
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Four Standing Figures and One Reclining Figure
Date1945-46
Artwork TypeTextile Summary
Catalogue NumberTEX 13
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By the end of the Second World War Moore was paradoxically championed by Herbert Read as a pioneer of Modernism whilst being revered by Kenneth Clark as the leading British artist able to connect the past with the present. This continuity may be seen here in Moore’s fundamentally humanist approach, re-examining the classicism of Ancient Greece in his use of drapery as well as figures standing in rows resembling the Caryatids of the Acropolis. Identification with Greece is further reinforced by the colour scheme of grey or blue and white.