Reclining Figure: Festival Art in 1961, which acquired ownership in 1969, and there it remains. A bronze cast, held by Musée National d'Art Moderne, is displayed in the Jardin des Tuileries near the Musée de l'Orangerie, in Paris. A third cast was sold for £19,081,250 at Christie's in February 2012, setting a record for a British sculpture and exceeding the £10.3 million paid for Damien Hirst's "The Golden Calf" in 2008. Reclining Figure: Festival Reclining Figure: Festival (LH 293) is a bronze sculpture by English artist Henry Moore, commissioned by the Arts Council in 1949 for the Festival of Britain in 1951. The
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,