Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece
1976-1978
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View on museum website →Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall: 534.5 x 721.1 x 363.1 cm (210 7/16 x 283 7/8 x 142 15/16 in.) gross weight: 5 tn
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Accession Number
1978.43.1
About the Artist
Henry Moore
Henry Moore (1898–1986) was one of the most celebrated and influential sculptors of the twentieth century, whose monumental abstract forms — reclining figures, mother and child groupings, and dramatic void-pierced masses — reshaped the landscape of modern sculpture and brought his work to audiences across the globe. Born in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner, Moore won a scholarship to...