Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore. The sculpture, catalogued as "LH 336", was cast in an edition of four (or "3+1"; one being retained by the artist). The artist's copy was given to the Henry Moore Foundation and is on display in their sculpture garden around his old house at Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Other copies in the edition are in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany. The work was a precursor to later draped figures. According to the artist's foundation, it
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