Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 (LH 629) is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. Approximately long, the sculpture was made an edition of seven full size casts (plus an artist's copy), all cast by the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin. Relatively unusually for Moore's work, the cast is polished rather than patinated. The highly abstract – almost surreal – sculpture comprises four pieces, with the composition reminiscent of a reclining human figure. One cast is located outside the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall at the intersection of Van Ness and Grove Streets in
Reclining Figure: Festival space and the form are completely dependent on and inseparable from each other. I had reached the stage where I wanted my sculpture to be truly three-dimensional. In my earliest use of holes in sculpture, the holes were features in themselves. Now the space and form are so naturally fused that they are one." (quoted at the Tate) In 1968, he included the work as one of his four most important works, alongside his Recumbent Figure 1938 in green Hornton stone, the elmwood Reclining Figure 1939 now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and first large bronze two-piece sculpture Reclining