Henry Moore

24 February - 08 August 2010

Henry Moore Recumbent Figure 1938 Tate © The Henry Moore Foundation

HENRY MOORE

24 February – 8 August 2010

Radical, experimental and avant-garde, Henry Moore is one of the greatest sculptors that Britain has ever produced. This major exhibition will reassert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his work for a generation.

Moore first emerged as an artist in the wake of the First World War. His sculpture expressed new ideas about the human body, reflecting the birth of psychoanalysis and growing public anxiety about further conflict. The exhibition will begin with his carvings from the 1920s and 1930s, including a selection of his iconic 'mother and child' figures. Also on display will be Moore's drawings of Londoners sheltering from the Blitz, as well as his celebrated sculptures from the 1950s and 1960s, reflecting the humanitarian anguish and political uncertainty of the post-war era.

In collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

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