Figure
Date
(1935)
Artist
Henry Moore, British, b. Castleford, England, 1898–1986
Provenance
Leicester Galleries, London, by 1936
Miss Benecke, Eastbourne, Sussex
Buchholz Gallery, New York, by 1949-at least 1951
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, to 1 February 1956
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1 February 1956-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Exhibition History
LEICESTER GALLERIES, London. "Henry Moore," November 1936, no. 12.
BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York. "Sculpture," 1949, no. 37, ill. (as "Figure," 1931)
BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York. "The Heritage of August Rodin," 6 December 1950-6 January 1951, no. 54, ill.
BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York. "Henry Moore," 6-31 March 1951, no. 1, ill.
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 168, ill. p. 78.
BUCHHOLZ GALLERY, New York. "Sculpture," 26 September-14 October 1959, no. 37, ill.
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 311.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 471.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Henry Moore: the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 28 July-28 September 1978, no. 6.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "The World of Henry Moore," 4 May-25 September 1983.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Direct Carving in Modern Sculpture: Selections from the Museum's Collection," 6 October-27 November 1983, no. 30.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Collection in Context: Henry Moore's Stringed Figure No. 1," 4 June-7 September 1998.
TATE BRITAIN, London. "Henry Moore," 24 February- 5 August 2010. TOUR: ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto, 23 October-6 February 2011.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York," 29 October 2015-15 February 2016, fig. 62, color ill. p. 64; p. 186.
Published References
REED, JUDITH KAYE. "Diverse Trends in Twentieth Century Sculpture," Art Digest 24 (1 October 1949), ill. p. 12.
SCHAEFFER-SIMMERN, HENRY. Sculpture in Europe Today (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955), p. 14, pl. 83.
SYLVESTER, DAVID, ed. Henry Moore, Vol. 1: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, 4th revised edition (London: Lund Humphries, 1957), no. 156, p. 10, ill. p. 14.
GROHMANN, WILL. The Art of Henry Moore (New York: Abrams, 1960), p. 29, pl. 11.
JIANOU, IONEL. Henry Moore, trans. Geoffrey Skelding (New York: Tudor, 1968), no. 143, p. 70.
MELVILLE, ROBERT. Henry Moore; Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969 (New York: Abrams, 1971), p. 343, pl. 126.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), p. 724, ill. no. 471.
LEIBSON, MILT. Direct Stone Sculpture (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 1991), ill. p. 52.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 89, p. 108.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
British Modernist Sculpture
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.3606
Type
Sculpture
Medium
Cumberland alabaster
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 11 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (29.2 x 29.5 x 17.1 cm)
