page_title: UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58
section_title: Working model
hierarchical_section_title: UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 / Working model
caption_attribution_description: English: Reclining Figure (1957) by Henry Moore. In front of the Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
context_page_description: UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was made in a series of scales, from a small plaster maquette, through a half-size working model made in plaster and cast in bronze, to a full-size version carved in Roman travertine marble in 1957–1958. The final work was installed in 1958 at the World Heritage Centre, the headquarters of UNESCO at the Place de Fontenoy in Paris. This was Moore's last major public commission in which he created a new work for a specific site; he afterwards generally worked from an existing sketch or model.
context_section_description: Moore completed a half-size working plaster model in August 1957, which measures 235 centimetres (93 in).  This model was made by applying layers of plaster to an armature, the surface of which was then worked with chisels and other tools.  
  The plaster working model is held by the Art Gallery of Ontario.  The working model (LH 415) was cast in bronze in edition of 7 (5 plus and artists copy, plus one extra cast made for the Tate Gallery), in 1959–1961: three at the Corinthian Art Bronze Foundry in London, two at Fonderie Susse in Paris, and two at the Hermann Noack foundry in Berlin.  One example of the 730 kilograms (1,610 lb) bronze is held by the Tate Gallery (cast 2/5).  Other examples are held in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Chicago Art Institute, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (cast 4/5), and the Kunsthaus Zürich (cast 5/5).
caption: Bronze working model in Zurich in 2010
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