Artnet

Once Called a ‘Monstrosity,’ Henry Moore’s Gnarly Reclining Figure Could Soon Fetch $40 Million at Sotheby’s

Few sculptures get more famous than this. Sotheby’s is set to feature Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) as a centerpiece of Modern Evening Sale in New York this November. Considered a ...
WBUR

The works of artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore in conversation at the MFA

Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure Bone” sculpture slopes down like the curves of a body or rolling hills. Two smooth openings peer into Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Pelvis IV” painting — a soft blue sky with a ...
The Boston Globe

At the MFA, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore’ revels in rhyme not reason

Georgia O’Keeffe spent her last years in the high desert of New Mexico, a celebrated recluse painting bleached skulls and folds of ruddy earth beneath the spotless blue skies of the American Southwest ...
Artnet

For Decades, a Small Lead Sculpture Sat on a Family’s Crowded Mantelpiece. Turns Out It Was a Rare Henry Moore

Not anymore. Recently rediscovered, the artwork was made by famed British sculptor Henry Moore, it turns out—and now it’s set to hit the auction block in England. Comprising two rounded figures, the ...
The Boston Globe

At Yale, connecting two great Britons

NEW HAVEN — There are certain obvious connections between the two men who give “Bill Brandt | Henry Moore” its name. The show runs at the Yale Center for British Art through Feb. 26. The exhibition ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rare Henry Moore Sculpture Spent Decades Sitting on Mantelpiece at English Farm

The lead figurine sat on a fireplace mantel in a farmhouse for years before experts authenticated the piece as a rare Henry Moore sculpture. Dreweatts For decades, a small, unassuming lead statue sat ...
The Conversation

Henry Moore in Miniature shows the brutal influence of wartime on the sculptor’s work

John Atkin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...