HENRY MOORE (United Kingdom, 1898 - 1986). "Three sealed figures in setting". 1979. Lithograph, copy 17/75. Signed and justified by him.

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  HENRY MOORE (United Kingdom, 1898 - 1986). "Three sealed figures in setting". 1979. Lithograph, copy 17/75. Signed and justified by him. Measurements: 40 x 50 cm. Henry Moore trained at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Although during his beginnings he followed the romantic style of the Victorian period, little by little he will develop his own language, influenced by artists of the Italian Renaissance like Giotto, Giovanni Pisano and Michelangelo, and also by the sculpture of the Toltec-Maya culture. His early works of the 1920s also show a certain influence of the aerodynamic forms of Constantin Brancusi. During the following decade his work was influenced by Picasso and the avant-garde abstract artists, both in his drawings and in his sculptures. Thus, many of his works from this period approach abstraction, some of them being rounded pieces carved in wood, with numerous cuts and hollows, often covered by veils of fine metal wire. Moore's main and most permanent influence, however, came from the world of nature. In his mature period, beginning with "Reclining Figure" (1936, City Art Gallery, Wakefield), Moore would employ swollen, rounded, undulating forms, with hollows and rounded perforations reflecting natural forms. His favourite subjects from this time onwards included mothers with their children, family groups, fallen warriors and, above all, the reclining human figure, which he continued to depict throughout his career, whether worked in wood or stone or, from 1950, in bronze and marble. In 1955 he was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honour, and the Order of Merit in 1963. He was also a member of the boards of the National Gallery in London and the Tate. Moore is now represented in major museums around the world, including MoMA in New York, where he was given a retrospective in 1946, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the National Gallery and the Tate in London, the Metropolitan in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, etc.
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