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Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9

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Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9
Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
ArtistHenry Moore
Year1967
Typebronze
Dimensions140 cm × 230 cm × 130 cm (54 in × 90 in × 50 in)

Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 is a bronze sculpture of 1967 by the English artist Henry Moore, which exists in several versions and is catalogued as LH 576.

Examples are located at the National Library of Australia, in Canberra,[1] the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California,[2] the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kansas City Sculpture Park,[3]

The bronze sculpture is an abstract, androgynous reclining form; it rests on a base installed on the lawn.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Henry Moore Foundation, Canberra
  2. ^ Henry Moore Foundation, Pasadena
  3. ^ Henry Moore Foundation, Kansas
  4. ^ Buck, Diane (1995). Outdoor Sculpture in Milwaukee: A Cultural and Historical Guidebook. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin. pp. 180–181. ISBN 0-87020-276-6.