Creator:

Henry Moore, 1898–1986, British

Title:
Woman Reading
Date:
original terracotta 1946, cast 1970
Materials & Techniques:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria, Yale BA 1962
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B1989.29.1
Former gallery labels:
Moore produced an enormous number of small maquettes over the course of his career and they played an important part in his artistic process. A selection of them is displayed here. As he explained: “Sometimes I make ten or twenty maquettes for every one that I use in a large scale—the others may get rejected. If a maquette keeps its interest enough for me to want to realize it as a full-scale final work, then I might make a working model in an intermediate size, in which changes will be made before going to the real, full-sized sculpture.” --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016