Based in Paris, France, the Susse Fondeur, or Susse Frères, began producing bronzes in the first half of the nineteenth century, under the direction of brothers Victor (1806-60) and Amédée (1808-80) Susse. The foundry made ornaments for clocks, candelabras and vases as well as bronze statues. After the death of the two brothers, it remained a family-run business and expanded to become a world-renowned art foundry.

Henry Moore used Susse Fondeur to cast a number of works between 1954 and 1959, when André Susse was director. André and his wife Arlette were known for building relationships with artists and travelled around France and to Britain, Switzerland and Spain to meet those whose works they might go on to cast. After André’s death in 1961, Arlette continued to run the company until the mid-1970s.

In a letter of 1959 to Paul Elek, publisher of Elek Books, Moore wrote of the Susse Foundry:
I don’t know that this foundry is any cheaper that [sic] the English foundries – I go to them because they are most experienced and reliable for large over-life-size sculptures, and because I have to spread my casting over three or four foundries in order to get the work done by the dates required.

When I send anything to Susse, in Paris, it is usually because I want two or three casts of it, otherwise the transport of the original [plaster] to Paris, and the cast to be returned make it more expensive than having it cast in England. Also the Susse foundry is used by so many sculptors that there is quote [sic] a long waiting period before they can undertake any new work.
(Henry Moore to Paul Elek, 1 December 1959, Henry Moore Archive).

Among the bronzes the foundry cast for Moore were two casts of the Working Model for UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957 (LH 415) and the edition of Draped Seated Woman 1957-58 (LH 428).

For more information, see:
https://susse.fr/historique/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/henry-moore/lyndsey-morgan-and-rozemarijn-van-der-molen-henry-moores-approach-to-bronze-r1151468