Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae

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Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae
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Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, Perry Green
Artist Henry Moore
Year1968-1969
CatalogueLH 580 [1]
MediumBronze
Dimensions710 cm(280 in)
LocationPerry Green

Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae (LH 580) is an abstract bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. [2]

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LH 578

The three part sculpture looks back to his earlier multi-part sculptures of human figures, and also his interlocking works such as Two Piece Sculpture No. 7: Pipe from 1966. Moore started with a plaster maquette in 1968 (LH 578), [3] with three interlocking elements inspired by bones or flints.

LH 579

He created a second larger plaster working model, which was cast in bronze in 1968 as his Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae (LH 579), [4] in an edition of eight (plus an artist's copy, which is at the Tate Gallery in London). [5] It measures 94 by 236.3 by 122 centimetres (37.0 in × 93.0 in × 48.0 in). Other casts are held by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., [6] the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, and Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, [7] and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. [8] Others are in private collections. [9] One example was sold at Christie's in 2012 for over £5m. [10]

LH 580

The working model was scaled up in 1968–69 into a full-size bronze sculpture, measuring 9 feet (2.7 m) x 24 feet (7.3 m) x 10 feet 7 inches (3.23 m) (LH 580). The full-size sculpture was cast in edition of three (plus one for the artist). One example is installed outside the Safeco Plaza (1001 4th Avenue) in Seattle, Washington. [11] It was surveyed and deemed "well maintained" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in May 1995. [2] [12] The others are at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, [13] and the Landesbausparkasse in Münster, [14] with the artist's copy at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.

LH 580a

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Dallas Piece

Three Forms Vertebrae (LH 580a), [15] also known as Dallas Piece or Vertebrae, is an abstract bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. [2] It was cast in 1978–79, specifically for a site outside I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall, and is the largest version of a sculpture that Moore created in 1968. Moore was commissioned in 1978 to create a sculpture to stand in the City Centre Park Plaza outside the Dallas City Hall, for which he scaled up his 1968–69 work Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae (LH 580). [8]

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References

  1. "Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae". henry-moore.org. Archived from the original on December 18, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  3. "Maquette for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae". henry-moore.org.
  4. "Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae". henry-moore.org.
  5. "'Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae', Henry Moore OM, CH: Catalogue entry". Tate. December 12, 1980. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  6. "Works in Public – Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968 (LH 579)". Henry Moore. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  7. "Works in Public – Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968 (LH 579)". Henry Moore. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Henry Moore – Works in Public – Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968 (LH 579)". Henry-moore-fdn.co.uk. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  9. "Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae 1968, cast c.1968 by Henry Moore OM, CH". Henry Moore OM, CH, 'Working Model for Three Piece No.3: Vertebrae' 1968, cast c.1968 (Henry Moore: Sculptural Process and Public Identity). Tate. June 26, 1978. ISBN   9781849763912 . Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  10. "Henry Moore (1898–1986) | Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae | Sculptures, Statues & Figures, bronze | Christie's". Christies.com. February 7, 2012. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  11. "Safeco Plaza". hines.com. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  12. "Works in Public – Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968–69 (LH 580)". Henry Moore. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  13. "Works in Public – Three Pieces Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968–69 (LH 580)". Henry Moore. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  14. "Works in Public – Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae 1968–69 (LH 580)". Henry Moore. Retrieved April 4, 2016.
  15. "Three Forms Vertebrae". henry-moore.org.