HENRY MOORE | Reclining Figures

Mrs R. S. El-Khalidi, Cambridge, Massachusetts (acquired directly from the artist in 1953)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2019

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 386, illustrated n.p.
Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, London, 2001, vol. III, no. AG 47-49.36/HMF2427, illustrated p. 267
John Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision, Cologne, 2005, n.n., illustrated p. 117

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'There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing, the other is seated, and the third is lying down… But of all the three poses, the reclining figure gives me the most freedom compositionally and spatially' - Henry Moore