Henry Moore at the Tate Britain
In Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries, is a Henry Moore exhibition from 24 February till 8 August 2010. Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation Sponsored by British Land Company PLC, Finsbury and Goldman Sachs With additional support from Tate Patrons and The Henry Moore Exhibition Supporters Group. Radical, experimental and avant garde, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of Britain’s greatest artists. This major exhibition will re-assert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his works for a generation. Henry Moore will present over 150 significant works including stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings.
Henry Moore will reveal the range and quality of Moore’s art in new ways – sometimes uncovering a dark and erotically charged dimension that challenges the familiar image of the artist and his work. Henry Moore first emerged as an artist in the wake of the First World War, in which he served on the Western Front. This exhibition will emphasise the impact on Moore’s work of its historical and intellectual contexts: the trauma of war, the advent of psychoanalysis and new ideas of sexuality, and the influence of primitive art and surrealism.
The exhibition will explore the defining subjects of Moore’s work, including the reclining figure, the iconic mother and child, abstract compositions and seminal drawings of London during the Blitz.
The Henry Moore Foundation is the UK’s largest artist foundation, running a visitor programme at the artist’s former home in Hertfordshire, an exhibition and research programme at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and staging Moore exhibitions all over the world. It awarded over £1.5 million in grants in 2008-9. Visit www.henry-moore.org.
Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries
Open daily 10.00 – 17.50, and until 22.00 on the first Friday of every month for Late at Tate
For tickets visit www.tate.org.uk/tickets or call 020 7887 8888
