Three Part Object comprises three irregular bulbous forms, each seemingly growing upward from the others. It was the British-based American sculptor Jacob Epstein who taught Moore to consider the relationship between masses as the central problem of sculpture. Moore added the idea of interlocking vo...
Three Part Object comprises three irregular bulbous forms, each seemingly growing upward from the others. It was the British-based American sculptor Jacob Epstein who taught Moore to consider the relationship between masses as the central problem of sculpture. Moore added the idea of interlocking volumes together to create more complex relationships, between projections and recesses, protrusions and hollows, material and atmosphere. This work was displayed as part of the Lugano - Monaco cultural exchange in August and September 1996.
Seen as the greatest British sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire. He discovered Egyptian and Mexican statuary art at the British Museum. In 1925, he travelled to study in Italy, France, and Spain, where he was fascinated by the works of Brancusi, Modigliani, Laurens, Lipchitz, Zadkine, and by Renaissance sculpture. It was during this period that his favourite themes emerged: the depiction of the “seated woman” and the “mother and child”. His works typically have smooth curves outlining the contours of the material. From the end of the Second World War, a number of major retrospectives were devoted to his works in Europe and America. In 1948, he was awarded the prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale. He died in 1986, in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.
