Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2006 Barcelona, CaixaForum, Henry Moore
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2006 Barcelona, CaixaForum, Henry Moore
19 July 2006 - 29 October 2006
A major Henry Moore retrospective has now opened in Barcelona.
Encompassing six decades of the artist’s work, this exhibition of
approximately one hundred sculptures and seventy drawings presents a
comprehensive display of Moore’s achievements in a wide variety of
media, including both small scale and monumental bronzes, original
plasters and a selection of found objects from the artist’s studio at
Perry Green.
Spain held a special significance for Moore, who visited the north of the country during a touring holiday in 1934 and campaigned for the Republican cause some two years later. The powerful and primitive forms he found in the famous cave paintings at Altamira were a tremendous source of inspiration, both immediately in drawings and carvings, and later in bronzes such as Woman 1957-58 (LH 439).
Spain held a special significance for Moore, who visited the north of the country during a touring holiday in 1934 and campaigned for the Republican cause some two years later. The powerful and primitive forms he found in the famous cave paintings at Altamira were a tremendous source of inspiration, both immediately in drawings and carvings, and later in bronzes such as Woman 1957-58 (LH 439).
29 March - 29 August 2010 (Perry Green), 3 February - 3 April 2011 (Leeds)
03 July 2004 - 03 October 2004
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.