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
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