© The Henry Moore Foundation
Four-Piece Composition (Reclining Figure)
Artist: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
Location: Tate
Date: 1934
Materials: alabaster
Dimensions: 18 x 45 x 17 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,000 (Total: £54,000)
Review number: 2599 (1976)
Description:
This important early carving fills one of the few major gaps that remained in Moore's representation at the Tate in 1976. Moore began making multi-part compositions in 1934 and this very abstract treatment of the reclining figure, a recurring theme in his work, was one of the first he attempted. Fragmentation and abstraction were ideas of crucial concern to European avant-garde artists at this period.
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