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Henry Moore, 1898–1986, British, Seated Woman Holding Child, 1982

Creator:: Henry Moore, 1898–1986
Title:: Seated Woman Holding Child
Date:: 1982
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: Overall: 6 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches (17.5 x 11.1 x 14.9 cm)
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962, in memory of Harriet Loria Popowitz
Copyright Status:: © Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:: B2000.13.2
Classification:: Sculptures
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: abstract art | child | figure study | mother | seated | woman
Access:: Not on view
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Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:49606
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Moore produced an enormous number of small maquettes over the course of his career and they played an important part in his artistic process. A selection of them is displayed here. As he explained: “Sometimes I make ten or twenty maquettes for every one that I use in a large scale—the others may get rejected. If a maquette keeps its interest enough for me to want to realize it as a full-scale final work, then I might make a working model in an intermediate size, in which changes will be made before going to the real, full-sized sculpture.”

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Moore produced an enormous number of small maquettes over the course of his career, and they played an important part in his artistic process. A selection of them is displayed here. As he explained: "Sometimes I make ten or twenty maquettes for every one that I use in a large scale-the others may get rejected. If a maquette keeps its interest enough for me to want to realize it as a full-scale final work, then I might make a working model in an intermediate size, in which changes will be made before going to the real, full-sized sculpture."

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2011

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Gail Gelburd, Mother and Child : The Art of Henry Moore, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, N.Y., 1987, p. 122, pl. 113, NJ18 M79 G54 [ORBIS]

David Sylvester, Henry Moore : Complete Sculpture, , v. 1-6, Lund Humphries, London, 1977 - 1999, pp. 54-55, vol. 6, cat. 876, , NJ18 M79 A12 B68 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

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