Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris
- Artist: Henry Moore
- Published: 1993
- Publisher: Lund Humphries, London
- Edition: -
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 32.5cm
- Pages: 128
- Illustrations: Includes 60 colour and 12 b&w illustrations
£35.00£17.50
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This is a remarkable evocation in full colour of the exhibition of Moore's late monumental bronzes held in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris, in 1992.
Over the years there have been many exhibitions of Moore's work in cities and museums around the world, but the exhibition at the Bagatelle was unique: a magical combination of Moore's monumental works set down in a park within a great city of the arts. Moore had a lifelong association with Paris, which began with a visit in 1922 while he was still a student, and his sculpture was exhibited there repeatedly during his lifetime.
Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens presents fifty stunning photographs by Michel Muller, one of Moore's assistants, capturing the magical atmosphere of this exhibition. David Cohen's introductory essay discusses particular works in the Paris show in relation to Moore's ideas about sculpture and the open air.
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Artists Biography
(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.
