Edition summary

Bronze edition of 3+1, cast 1962-65
Primary: plaster, 1962-65

This sculpture is one of Moore's earliest two piece sculptures, in which the hollows and holes of his previous work give way to the complete division of the sculpture into separate but integral parts. Moore explained: 'I realised what an advantage a seperated two piece composition could have in relating (forms) to landscape. . . Once these two parts become separated, you can justifiably make it a landscape or a rock' (Carlton Lake, 'Henry Moore's World', Atlantic Monthly, vol.209, no.1, January 1962, pp.39-45).