TORONTO—This Autumn, the Art Gallery of Ontario is celebrating an anniversary that hits a remarkable milestone. It's been 50 years since the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre came into being. The AGO, Toronto's modern art gallery, is at the very heart of the city, and the...
Update: DECEMBER 2023 - Forum Auctions has sold a newly discovered artwork by British sculptor and painter, Henry Moore (1898-1986). The work, which was purchased in the UK from a charity shop realised £25,000 plus commission. The discovery of an important Henry...
In the autumn of 1921, Henry Moore, a student from the Royal College of Art, visited Stonehenge. He checked into his hotel, ready to set off in the morning and see the neolithic monument for the first time. But restless and eaten up with curiosity, he couldn't wait...
The YBA artist Tracey Emin has requested that her neon sculpture 'More Passion' be removed from the private quarters at 10 Downing Street as a protest to 'Party-Gate' as well as the present Government's handling of the COVID crisis. In a statement on Instagram, Ms...
This Living Hand, the exhibition curated by artist and writer Edmund de Waal for the Henry Moore Foundation will now open on the 19 May. The innovative exhibition, exploring the theme of touch, was originally intended to open on 3 April 2020 at Henry Moore’s former...
Godfrey Worsdale is Director of the Henry Moore Foundation and responsible for the artist's Studios and Gardens in Hertfordshire and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. He was previously Director of the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Founding Director of MIMA and...
A trip to the magnificent Palladian house Houghton Hall in Norfolk is always a much look forwarded to pleasure. The current exhibition is a major show of works by Henry Moore, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation. For the last few years the current owner...
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process. Daniel Hopfer (1470-1536) of Augsburg, Germany decorated armour in this way and applied this corrosive picture-making method to printmaking...
Once lauded as the greatest British artist of the 20th century, Moore has - in recent years - been usurped by the great sadomasochistic gambler of old, Francis Bacon; where, in the battle for the representation of the human form, Moore has become the muted child...