Reclining Figure 1969–70 Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan, and the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel. Three are in private collections, including one (cast 2/6) that was sold at Christie's in November 2013 for $6,101,000. Following controversy, one cast was installed on the campus of Columbia University. Reclining Figure 1969–70 Reclining Figure 1969–70 (LH 608) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore. Inspired by the shape of a piece of flint, Moore created a maquette for the sculpture in plaster which was cast in an edition of small bronzes, some long. The maquette
Henry Moore town of Stevenage. This time, the project was completed and "Family Group" became Moore's first large-scale public bronze. In the 1950s, Moore began to receive increasingly significant commissions. He exhibited at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and in 1958 produced a large marble reclining figure for the UNESCO building in Paris. With many more public works of art, the scale of Moore's sculptures grew significantly and he started to employ an increasing number of assistants to work with him at Much Hadham, including Anthony Caro and Richard Wentworth. On the campus of the University of Chicago in December 1967,