Description:
Small bronze sculpture of an abstract nude female figure reclining on her proper right side, with her limbs positioned in right angles
Label Text:
The reclining figure was a subject that Henry Moore revisited time and again in the course of a productive career spanning several decades. A crucial influence on Moore in developing this motif was the ancient Mesoamerican Chacmool sculpture, a supine figure whose chest and legs face the heavens while the head is rotated to confront the viewer. Reclining Figure: Right Angles, created toward the end of Moore’s life, represents a culmination of the artist’s investigation into the endless possibilities of elaborating on this theme. Here, Moore has not only molded the body of the figure, but also the space surrounding it: each opening framed by the limbs and the torso functions as a window that gives the viewer a new and unexpected vista.
-Gülru Çakmak, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art, University of Massachussetts Amherst
A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives (July 29, 2017 - May 27, 2018
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