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Sculpture 1945 - 1979

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Henry Moore, Working Model for Spindle Piece, 1968-9
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Henry Moore, Working Model for Spindle Piece, 1968-9

Henry Moore 1898-1986

Working Model for Spindle Piece, 1968-9
bronze
height 33 1/8 in / 84 cm
LH 592, cast in 1969 by Art Bronze Foundry, London, edition no.4/10, from an edition of 10 + 1

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Large Spindle Piece was based on the shape of a piece of flint with protruding points that Moore found near his Perry Green home. It was also greatly inspired by...
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Large Spindle Piece was based on the shape of a piece of flint with protruding points that Moore found near his Perry Green home. It was also greatly inspired by Moore’s fascination with Michelangelo, which had begun almost 50 years earlier. A Royal Academy Scholarship had enabled Moore to travel to Italy in 1925 where he visited the Sistine Chapel. The dynamism created by the almost touching fingers of Adam and God in Michelangelo’s depiction of the Creation had inspired Moore to think about the tension between points and the energy this could convey. Large Spindle Piece also developed an earlier idea from the work Three Points made in 1939; he said: “Here again the points are used to give action: inwards in the case of the Three Points, but here to give action outwards”.

Sister work - points going inwards -Oval with Points, 1968-70, LH 596

Maquette LH 591
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482559 (references)

Mid Size LH 4/592
http://webarchive.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/japan/hakone/open-air-museum/spindle-piece-1968-69-lh-592

Plaster - https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/14045/working-model-for-spindle-piece?ctx=b5f0ee8f679fd5d710969efa57e81bdae17b1ecd&idx=11
is in the Henry Moore Foundation collection

Large Outdoor LH 593
https://webarchive.henry-moore.org/works-in-public/world/uk/london/kings-cross-station/large-spindle-piece-1974-lh-593
https://ysp.org.uk/art-outdoors/large-spindle-piece#gallery_40522-0
http://www.sculpturesofjeddah.com/sculptures/detail/large-spindle-piece
Large Spindle Piece, 1969 is in the City of Houston's Municipal Art Collection and is currently cited outdoors on Allen Parkway.

Marble ?

It's all here: https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/search/spindle/objects/images?page=2
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Provenance

The Artist
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, acquired directly from the above on 20 August 1971
Private Collection, USA
Osborne Samuel, London
Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions

Perry Green, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore: Plasters, 1 April - 30 October 2011, plaster exhibited

Landernau, France, Fonds Hélène & Edouard Leclerc pour la culture, Henry Moore, 10 June –4 November 2018, cast 0 exhibited

Norfolk, Houghton Hall, Henry Moore at Houghton Hall: Nature and Inspiration, 1 May – 29 September 2019, cast 0 exhibited

Literature

Robert Melville, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, Harry N.Abrams, New York, 1970, cat no.743, illus b/w, as Spindle Piece, 1968, cast unspecified


Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Volume 4, Complete Sculpture 1964-1973, London, 1977, cat no.592, illus b/w p54 and full page plates 108 & 109, cast unspecified


Henry Moore 80/80, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, 1978, illus b/w, cast unspecified


William S Lieberman, Henry Moore: 60 Years of His Art, Thames and Hudson, 1983, illus b/w p102

Anita Feldman & Malcolm Woodward, Henry Moore: Plasters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2011, the plaster illus


Richard Calvocoressi (ed.), Henry Moore at Perry Green, Scala, London, 2011, the plaster illus

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