Standing Figure: Knife Edge
At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2007
Artist	Henry Moore
Year	1961
Catalogue	LH 482
Medium	Bronze
Dimensions	280 cm (110 in)

Standing Figure: Knife Edge is abronze sculpture by the English artistHenry Moore. It was cast in two full-size versions:Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482) in 1961, and a largerLarge Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482a) in 1976. The sculpture also is sometimes known asStanding Figure (Bone) orWinged Figure.

Moore first conceived the work in 1961. It is based on a fragment of a bird'sbreastbone, to which a base and a head were added withplasticine. A rounded protrusion forms the head, and the figure has a diagonal line at its waist. The resulting composition resembles a human torso, similar to theWinged Victory of Samothrace. It had been described as the end point of Moore's investigation of upright figures, which started withStanding Figure (1950) (LH 290). He used a similar process, starting with bone fragments, for his 1962 work,Knife Edge Two Piece.

The sculpture was enlarged in three stages. First, Moore made a 162.5 centimetres (5 ft 4.0 in) high working model (LH 481) in 1961. TheHenry Moore Foundation atPerry Green, Hertfordshire, has two versions, one in plaster and another in fibreglass,^[1][2] and other examples are held by theHakone Open-Air Museum in Japan,^[3] and theHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.^[4]

Second, Moore made the 2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in) highStanding Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482), cast at theMorris Singer art foundry in 1961 in an edition of 7 (6 plus 1 artist's copy). The artist's copy, cast 0, is displayed in theW. B. Yeats Memorial Garden atSt Stephen's Green in Dublin.^[5][6][7] This piece was restored in 2020.^[8] There are other examples at:

• One Maritime Plaza in San Francisco^[9][10]
• Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (cast 4)^[11][12]
• Minneapolis Sculpture Garden^[13][14]
• Botanischer Garten Grugapark, Essen, Germany^[15][16]
• Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC^[17]

Moore enlarged the work again to create the 3.6 metres (11 ft 10 in) highLarge Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482a), cast in 1976 in an edition of 8 (6 plus 2 artist's copies). The two artists copies, cast 0 and cast 00, are owned by the Henry Moore Foundation, with one displayed inGreenwich Park from 1979 to 2007, and again since 2011.^[18][19][20]There are other examples at:

• Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, inHovikodden, Norway (cast 1)^[21][22]
• one at the Stiftung Landis and Gyr, besideLake Zug in Switzerland (cast 3)^[23]
• National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan^[24]
• North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina^[25]
• Little Rock, Arkansas^[26][27]

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  Standing Figure: Knife Edge, St Stephen's Green, Dublin
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  Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Essen
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  Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Essen
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  Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Greenwich Park

• List of sculptures by Henry Moore

• Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations, Henry Moore, pp. 290–291

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