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 ...
Artnet

Spotlight: A Thought-Provoking London Exhibition Presents Henry Moore’s Sculptures and Drawings in a New Light

Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist you should know. Check out what we ...
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‘A flapdoodle’ follows WAM’s game-changing sale of a prominent Henry Moore sculpture

The Wichita art community is in a bit of a tither over the Wichita Art Museum’s sale of a Henry Moore sculpture — what some consider one of its prized pieces — for $10.5 million. “A flapdoodle” is how ...
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Henry Moore in Miniature: And you thought Britain’s greatest sculptor only made grand gestures

A sculpture by Henry Moore is normally hard to miss. Works by the 20th century British artist are dotted throughout the world: from a commission outside the Unesco office in Paris, to Knife Edge ...
Reuters

Dark side of sculptor Henry Moore on show in London

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Sculptor Henry Moore is portrayed as a radical who explored a dark world of sex, war and death in a show that challenges his modern image as the creator of gentle figures that ...
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Henry Moore sculpture could be re-erected thanks to 21st century science

A dismantled Henry Moore sculpture could be re-erected in Kensington Gardens, London, thanks to the latest rock engineering techniques, says a team of experts today. The Arch, a sculpture dismantled ...
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Henry Moore on sculpture a collection of the sculptor's writings and spoken words edited, with an introd., by Philip James

List of illustrations -- Introduction / Philip James -- Boyhood -- Leeds School of Art -- Royal College of Art -- Italy -- The first exhibition -- Greece -- Influences -- A working day -- Periods of ...
Barron's

Henry Moore’s Sculpture ‘Square Form’ Could Fetch £5 Million

Henry Moore’s surreal modernist sculpture Square Form is estimated to sell for between £3 million and £5 million (US$3.95 million and US$6.58 million) when it appears at auction for the first time ...
Artnet

A Sculpture Once Owned by Henry Moore Is Temporarily Barred From Leaving the U.K.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a sculpture by Hans Coper, valued at almost £600,000 ($753,950), to give U.K. institutions time to acquire the work for the nation. The stoneware work, shaped ...
Wichita Eagle

‘A flapdoodle’ follows WAM’s game-changing sale of a prominent Henry Moore sculpture

The Wichita Art Museum sold this Henry Moore sculpture for $10.5 million to a private collector. Museum director Anne Kraybill called the British work an outlier in the museum’s mostly American ...
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‘A flapdoodle’ follows WAM’s game-changing sale of a prominent Henry Moore sculpture

The Henry Moore studio in England loaned WAM the sculpture in 1977 with the intent to let it remain for three years while the Carneys’ friends raised the $150,000 to buy it. If that hadn’t happened, ...