Reclining Figure

1930

Henry Moore English, 1898-1986

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About the Artwork

Title Reclining Figure

Artwork Date 1930

Artist Henry Moore

Life Dates 1898-1986

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Ancaster stone

Dimensions 13 × 20 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (33 × 51.4 × 19.7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 62.97

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(M. Knoedler and Co., American, [1846 - 2011]);
Mrs. Fletcher LeB. B. Dailey;
1962-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings. New York, 1944, unpaginated, no. 27a (ill.).

Sweeney, James Johnson. Henry Moore. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1946, p. 90, no. 9. [as lent by Miss Lois Orswell, Narragansett, Rhode Island]

Louchheim, Aline B. "Narragansett Novitiate." Art News 46, no. 3 (May 1947): 38–40, p. 39.

Sylvester, A.D.B. "The Evolution of Henry Moore’s Sculpture: 1." Burlington Magazine 90, no. 543 (June 1948): 158–165, p. 159.

Sylvester, David. Henry Moore, sculptures and drawings 1921–1948. London, 1957, p. 57, no. 94 (ill.).

Page, A.F. "Contemporary British and Canadian Art." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 42, no. 1 (Autumn 1962): 9–13, p. 9–10 (ill.).

The Institute Collects: A Selective Survey of Additions to the Collection, 1959–1964. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 16.

Read, Herbert. Henry Moore: A study of his life and work. London, 1965, pp. 73–74 (ill.), 269, no. 47. [as in the collection of Miss Lois Orswell]

Henry Moore: The Reclining Figure. Exh. cat., Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus, 1984, pp. 13–14, 30, cat. 3 (ill.).

Message 1995: Masterpieces of Modern Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Toyota, 1995, pp. 124–125 (ill.), 216, no. 47.

Cohn, Marjorie. Lois Orswell, David Smith and Modern Art. Cambridge, 2002, p. 26 (ill.), 130, 373, 380–381.

Henry Moore. Exh. cat., Tate Britain. London, 2010, p. 113, cat. 26 (ill.).

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