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Large Reclining Figure
Large Reclining Figure outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2004
Artist	Henry Moore
Year	1983
Catalogue	LH 192b
Medium	Fiberglass
Dimensions	340 cm × 900 cm × 310 cm (130 in × 350 in × 120 in)

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.

Description

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.

Casts

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.

See also

• List of sculptures by Henry Moore

Notes

1. "Large Reclining Figure". henry-moore.org. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022.

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

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Sculptures	List of sculptures Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure Reclining Figure 1938 Recumbent Figure 1938 Reclining Figure 1939 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 Reclining Figure 1956 Seated Woman, 1957 Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 Standing Figure: Knife Edge Large Torso, Arch Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 Three Way Piece No.1: Points Three Way Piece No.2: Archer Locking Piece Man Enters the Cosmos Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Nuclear Energy Spindle Piece Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae Oval with Points Large Two Forms Reclining Figure 1969–70 Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Large Arch 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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• Bronze sculptures in Singapore
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• Public art in Singapore
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