Reclining Figure 1938

Fibreglass model outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 2004

Bronze at the OCBC Centre, Singapore

Reclining Figure 1938 (LH 192) is a small sculpture by Henry Moore of an sinuous abstracted human figure. An enlarged version was made in 1984 for the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore. The resulting Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is some 9 metres (30 ft) long, making it the largest sculpture made by Moore.

The sculpture is recognisable as a human form. The head has a notch, like a claw; the narrow torso has two dangling breasts; the left arm rests on the ground, while the right arm and ribbon-like backbone are linked to a pelvis resting on the ground, from which to one long bone-like limb extends to one side.

A 5.75 by 13 inches (14.6 cm × 33.0 cm) lead maquette was made by Moore in 1938, and sold by him to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1939. An edition of nine bronzes was cast in 1946; one example is held by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and another in the Leeds Art Gallery since 1991.

The 1938 version is only 33 centimetres (13 in) long. It was enlarged in 1984 for a commission from the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in Singapore to create a 9 metres (30 ft) long bronze, Moore's largest ever sculpture. The original Large Reclining Figure (LH 192b) is outside the OCBC Centre in Singapore, with an artist's copy in bronze at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. There is also a 9 metres (30 ft) long white fibreglass version of the enlarged sculpture, which was displayed at Kew Gardens in 2004.

References

Reclining Figure 1938 (bronze), Henry Moore Foundation
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1938 (lead), Museum of Modern Art
Reclining Figure, 1938 (cast 1946) (bronze), Peggy Guggenheim Collectrion
Large Reclining Figure 1984 (fibreglass), Henry Moore Foundation
Large Reclining Figure 1984 (bronze), Henry Moore Foundation

Henry Moore
Sculptures	Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure Reclining Figure 1938 Recumbent Figure 1938 Three Standing Figures 1947 Family Group Reclining Figure: Festival King and Queen Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 Large Interior Form, 1953–54 Reclining Figure: External Form 1953–1954 Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross Seated Woman, 1957 Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 Standing Figure: Knife Edge Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Man Enters the Cosmos Three-Way Piece: Points Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Nuclear Energy Spindle Piece Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae Oval with Points Reclining Figure 1969–70 Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Sheep Piece 1971–72 Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 Hill Arches 1973 Goslar Warrior 1973–1974 Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 The Arch 1979–1980
Assistants	Reg Butler Anthony Caro Robert Clatworthy Phillip King Philip McCracken Bernard Meadows Lenton Parr Ron Robertson-Swann Stephen Walker Richard Wentworth Isaac Witkin
Associated with	Barbara Hepworth Unit One
Supporters	Kenneth Clark
Institutions	Henry Moore Foundation

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