Henry Moore

British | 1898 - 1986

Henry Moore was a British Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1898. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have featured Henry Moore's work in the past.Henry Moore's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 32,765,322 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 32,765,322 USD for Reclining Figure: Festival, sold at Christie's London in 2016. In the past 12 months, his sculptures have averaged 293,761 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 28,483 USD.Henry Moore has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for VernissageTV in March 2025. The artist died in 1986.

Artist's alternative names: Henry Moore, Henry Spencer Moore, Moore

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Sculptural Objects ,1949

By Henry Moore

Gallery Art

Maquette For Warrior Without Shield ,1952

By Henry Moore

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Woman Reading ,1946

By Henry Moore

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Reclining Figure: Festival - Henry Moore

Reclining Figure: Festival ,1951

By Henry Moore

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THREE-PIECE RECLINING FIGURE: DRAPED

By Henry Moore

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Draped Reclining Woman ,1958

By Henry Moore

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Three Part Object ,1960

By Henry Moore

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Woman Reading ,1946

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Head of Girl ,1960

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DAVID QUENTIN MOORE

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sm ,1886

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Works ,1921

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Current Exhibitions

Drawing Room: Works on paper 1913-2013

Tornabuoni Art, Rome

Rome | Italy

Mar 06,2025 - May 10,2025

Photographer as Sculptor, Sculptor as Photographer

Bruce Silverstein Gallery

Chelsea | New York | USA

Apr 10,2025 - Jun 07,2025

Where the Modern Meets the Contemporary

Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM)

Sao Paulo | Brazil

Mar 26,2025 - Jun 08,2025

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Articles

Art South Africa 16/04/2025

An exhibition at the Centro Cultural Fiesp celebrating over 100 works from the MAM S茫o Paulo Collection.

The New York Times 15/04/2025

鈥淥cean,鈥� now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses past with present, and art with science to raise urgent questions about our relationship with the sea.

VernissageTV 31/03/2025

Medardo Rosso (1858鈥�1928), an Italian-French sculptor and photographer, influenced art around 1900. His work impacted sculpture history, though he remains less recognized today.

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鈥� ..Henry Moore is best known for his sculpture: for his large scale bronze works on display in cities throughout the world, for his semi-abstact carvings and representations of the female form... 鈥�
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Henry Moore Institute Galleries

鈥� ..Best known for his monumental bronzes and stone carvings, until recently his plasters have been regarded as preparatory stages in his sculptural process rather than as works of art in their own right... 鈥�
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Sculpture Park Waldfrieden

鈥� ..Throughout his career, Moore utilised a wide range of techniques and media, such as line drawing and cross-hatching, gouache, chalk and crayon, to bring two-dimensional forms to life, creating impressions... 鈥�
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Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

鈥� ..These reveal the melding of observation and imagination that informed Moore鈥檚 move away from the primitive-looking figures of his early works towards the uncanny, metamorphosed forms that characterised... 鈥�
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Hauser & Wirth, London, Piccadilly

鈥� ..Moore rebelled against his teachers鈥� traditional views of sculpture, instead taking inspiration from non-Western works he saw in museums... 鈥�
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