Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 "successfully added the contours of natural forms as well as a distinct hint of classicism to the repose of his figures, yet preserved that sense of immutability conveyed by the Mexican Chacmool figures that had so profoundly influenced the younger artist." 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
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