Standing Figure: Knife Edge

Standing Figure: Knife Edge
Standing Figure: Knife Edge
	At the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2007
Artist	Henry Moore
Year	1961
Catalogue	LH 482
Medium	Bronze
Dimensions	280 cm (110 in)

Standing Figure: Knife Edge is a bronze sculpture by the English artist Henry Moore. It was cast in two full-size versions: Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482) in 1961, and a larger Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482a) in 1976. The sculpture also is sometimes known as Standing Figure (Bone) or Winged Figure.

Moore first conceived the work in 1961. It is based on a fragment of a bird's

Knife Edge Two Piece

.

The sculpture was enlarged in three stages. First, Moore made a 162.5 centimetres (5 ft 4.0 in) high working model (LH 481) in 1961. The Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Hertfordshire, has two versions, one in plaster and another in fibreglass,^[1]^[2] and other examples are held by the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan,^[3] and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.^[4]

Second, Moore made the 2.8 metres (9 ft 2 in) high Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482), cast at the Morris Singer art foundry in 1961 in an edition of 7 (6 plus 1 artist's copy). The artist's copy, cast 0, is displayed in the W. B. Yeats Memorial Garden at St Stephen's Green in Dublin.^[5]^[6]^[7] This piece was restored in 2020.^[8] There are other examples at:

One Maritime Plaza in San Francisco ^[9]^[10]
Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (cast 4)^[11]^[12]
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden^[13]^[14]
Botanischer Garten Grugapark, Essen, Germany^[15]^[16]
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC^[17]

Moore enlarged the work again to create the 3.6 metres (11 ft 10 in) high Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge (LH 482a), cast in 1976 in an edition of 8 (6 plus 2 artist's copies). The two artists copies, cast 0 and cast 00, are owned by the Henry Moore Foundation, with one displayed in Greenwich Park from 1979 to 2007, and again since 2011.^[18]^[19]^[20] There are other examples at:

Hovikodden, Norway (cast 1)^[21]^[22]

one at the Stiftung Landis and Gyr, beside Lake Zug in Switzerland (cast 3)^[23]
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan ^[24]
North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina ^[25]
Little Rock, Arkansas^[26]^[27]

Standing Figure: Knife Edge, St Stephen's Green, Dublin
Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Essen
Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Essen
Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Greenwich Park

References

^ Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge (plaster), Henry Moore Foundation
^ Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge (fibreglass), Henry Moore Foundation
^ Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 481), Hakone, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Working Model for "Standing Figure: Knife Edge", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482 cast 0, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Standing Figure Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Dulin, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Knife-Edge, memorial for W.B. Yeats
^ Bromwell, Philip (8 July 2020). "'Hidden gem' restored in Dublin's St Stephen's Green". Archived from the original on 8 July 2020.
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), San Francisco, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Standing Figure, Knife-Edge, Smithsonian Institution
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Pasadena, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge, cast 4, Norton Simon Museum
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Minneapolis, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center
^ Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Grugapark
^ Kunstwerke im Grugapark, Essen
^ Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Henry Moore, Standing Figure: Knife-Edge The Kreeger Museum
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 0, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 00, Henry Moore Foundation
^ The return of Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge Henry Moore sculpture installed in Greenwich Park, 1 January 2011
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 1, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Sculpture Park, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 3, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Osaka, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Rayleigh, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Little Rock, Henry Moore Foundation
^ Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations, Henry Moore, pp. 290–291

[1] Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge (plaster), Henry Moore Foundation

[2] Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge (fibreglass), Henry Moore Foundation

[3] Working Model for Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 481), Hakone, Henry Moore Foundation

[4] Working Model for "Standing Figure: Knife Edge", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

[5] Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482 cast 0, Henry Moore Foundation

[6] Standing Figure Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Dulin, Henry Moore Foundation

[7] Knife-Edge, memorial for W.B. Yeats

[8] Bromwell, Philip (8 July 2020). "'Hidden gem' restored in Dublin's St Stephen's Green". Archived from the original on 8 July 2020.

[9] Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), San Francisco, Henry Moore Foundation

[10] Standing Figure, Knife-Edge, Smithsonian Institution

[11] Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Pasadena, Henry Moore Foundation

[12] Standing Figure: Knife Edge, cast 4, Norton Simon Museum

[13] Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Minneapolis, Henry Moore Foundation

[14] Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center

[15] Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482), Grugapark

[16] Kunstwerke im Grugapark, Essen

[17] Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Henry Moore, Standing Figure: Knife-Edge The Kreeger Museum

[18] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 0, Henry Moore Foundation

[19] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 00, Henry Moore Foundation

[20] The return of Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge Henry Moore sculpture installed in Greenwich Park, 1 January 2011

[21] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 1, Henry Moore Foundation

[22] Sculpture Park, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

[23] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, LH 482a cast 3, Henry Moore Foundation

[24] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Osaka, Henry Moore Foundation

[25] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Rayleigh, Henry Moore Foundation

[26] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge 1961 (LH 482a), Little Rock, Henry Moore Foundation

[27] Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture

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Sculptures	List of sculptures Four-Piece Composition: Reclining Figure Reclining Figure 1938 Recumbent Figure 1938 Reclining Figure 1939 Three Standing Figures 1947 Family Group Reclining Figure: Festival King and Queen Draped Reclining Figure, 1952–53 Large Interior Form, 1953–54 Reclining Figure: External Form 1953–1954 Upright Motive No. 1: Glenkiln Cross Seated Woman, 1957 Draped Seated Woman 1957–58 Draped Reclining Woman 1957–58 UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 Standing Figure: Knife Edge Large Torso, Arch Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 Three-Piece Reclining Figure No. 2: Bridge Prop Reclining Figure (Lincoln Center) Three Way Piece No.1: Points Three Way Piece No.2: Archer Locking Piece Man Enters the Cosmos Two-Piece Reclining Figure No. 9 Nuclear Energy Spindle Piece Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model) Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae Oval with Points Large Two Forms Reclining Figure 1969–70 Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points Large Arch Sheep Piece 1971–72 Large Four Piece Reclining Figure 1972–73 Hill Arches 1973 Goslar Warrior 1973–1974 Three-Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975 The Arch 1979–1980
Assistants	Reg Butler Anthony Caro Robert Clatworthy Phillip King Philip McCracken Bernard Meadows Lenton Parr Ron Robertson-Swann Stephen Walker Richard Wentworth Isaac Witkin
Associated with	Barbara Hepworth Unit One
Supporters	Kenneth Clark
Institutions	Henry Moore Foundation

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