This sculpture combines the artist’s three most predominant themes: mother and child, reclining figure and internal/external forms.
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27 - Draped Reclining Mother and Baby
- LH 822
- Bronze Edition of 9 + 1
- Cast:
- Morris Singer, Basingstoke
- Length:
- 265.5cm
- Signature:
- Stamped Moore, 0/9
- The Henry Moore Foundation:
- acquired 1986
The exquisite KEW GARDENS 2008 exhibition is a true contribution to Henry Moore's living memory. His eyes for movement of lines ,at times erotic, simply sculpture unsurpassed in modern times.
M.L., Iver Village- It is fantastic. I Love Moores work. the only thing that worried me a bit about this one is that the mother is so kind of abstract and the baby is more realist. I wondered why he did this. But it is great anyway.M.G., Leeds
- It's almost a fusion between a human form and a fruit with a seed inside
- Tears welled up in my eyes when I looked upon this sculpture; it is so tender; it captures the madonna with child of Michaelangelo entirely which I saw recently.J.S., London
- Henry Moore is indeed the Michaelangelo of the 20th century.J.S., London
- this sculpture evoked the emotional bond of a mother and her child that it touched me so keenly I criedS.H., Birchington, Kent