Henry Moore Complete Sculpture: Volume 6: Sculpture 1980–86
- Artist: Henry Moore
- Published: 1988
- Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
- Edition: First
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 29.5cm
- Pages: 240
- Illustrations: 300 b&w illustrations
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Add to basketHenry Moore Complete Sculpture: Volume 6: Sculpture 1980–86
This sixth and final volume of the official catalogue of Henry Moore's sculpture covers the last period of the artist's working life. It includes 137 works, a remarkable number for this short-time span given Moore's failing health from 1983 onwards. Despite his increasing frailty the sculptures maintain a vigour and originality, with some new treatments of familiar themes such as the Mother and Child. In addition, subjects which preoccupied him less in earlier times – such as torsos and paired figures – are fully explored. As in the other volumes, all works are illustrated alongside their entries and many are reproduced, often from several viewpoints, in the plate section, which contains 148 illustrations. Since the first edition was published in 1988, new information on works produced during the period 1981–86 has come to light. This is now incorporated into this new, revised edition, which also includes significant addenda for Volumes 1 and 4. These are also catalogued and illustrated, both in the addenda and as large-format plates. The list of exhibitions and the bibliography have also been brought fully up to date. The new edition includes a complete list of public collections covering the entire series of volumes. This not only reveals the incredible geographical spread of the artist's work, but will enable readers in many countries to pinpoint the nearest museums that possess examples. In the six volumes of this catalogue, since the first works dated from 1921, more than a thousand sculptures are documented and fully illustrated.
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(b Castleford, W. Yorks, 30 July 1898; d Perry Green, Much Hadham, Herts, 31 Aug 1986). English sculptor, draughtsman and printmaker. Generally acknowledged as the most important British sculptor of the 20th century, he took the human figure as his central subject-matter throughout his career. Although he witnessed revolutionary stylistic changes and the emergence of new sculptural materials during his working life, he borrowed from diverse cultural traditions and artists in order to give his work a profound resonance with the art of the past. His female figures, echoing the forms of mountains, valleys, cliffs and caves, extended and enriched the landscape tradition, which he embraced as part of his English artistic heritage.
