Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 San Francisco's Civic Center, in the U.S. state of California. The work's estimated cost is between $60,000 and $85,000. The work was displayed in London's Gagosian Gallery in 2012. Other casts are located at the Lamont Library, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art in Kofu, Japan. The artist's copy (cast 0) is at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. 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
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion to compose a landscape, and a small distant reclining figure. When the canvas is unframed, a number of measuring marks are visible on the outer margin of board, indicating that the composition was carefully conceived. Bacon said in a 1959 letter that the figures in "Three Studies" were "intended to [be] use[d] at the base of a large Crucifixion which I may still do." By this, Bacon implied that the figures were conceived as a predella to a larger altarpiece. The biographer Michael Peppiatt has suggested that the panels may have emerged as single works, and that the idea of