| Large Two Forms | |
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 The cast inGrange Park, 2023 | |
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| Artist | Henry Moore |
Large Two Forms (LH 566) is a 1966-1969 sculpture byHenry Moore. The monumental sculpture measures 365 cm × 610 cm × 400 cm (144 in × 240 in × 157 in). It comprises two large curving elements that almost meet. The organic shapes, each with oval openings, resemble two humanpelvis bones, positioned as if copulating. The work may have a distant relationship to his 1934 sculptureTwo Forms (LH 153) inpynkado wood, now held by theMuseum of Modern Art in New York.
Moore made a small 16.5 cm (6.5 in) plastermaquette of the work that becameLarge Two Forms in 1966. This maquette (LH 554a) was cast in bronze (LH 554b) in 1976, in an edition of 9+1 (nine plus anartist's cast). Moore carved a single 97 cm (38 in) stone version (LH 555) in redtravertine in 1966.
The plaster maquette was scaled up into a full-sized version usingpolystyrene blocks, and was cast in bronze byHermann Noack's foundry in Berlin, in an edition 4+1 (four made in 1969, plus anartist's cast made posthumously in 1992). The two elements weigh about 3.5 tonnes each. There were also unique versions in plaster and fibreglass, the latter created to be more mobile for exhibition, for example in 1971 at theBelvedere in Florence and theTuileries Garden in Paris.[1]
Four of the five bronze casts are displayed at theYorkshire Sculpture Park, theArt Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, theNeuberger Museum of Art at theState University of New York at Purchase, and outside the formerFederal Chancellery building inBonn.
Cast number 1 was installed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1973.[2][3][4] Originally located next to theArt Gallery of Ontario at the corner of Dundas and McCaul streets, the artwork was moved in 2017 and is now installed inGrange Park.
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