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
Modernism sculptor. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions, including a reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris in 1958. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly.