"Six Figures on a Green Ground"

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(1966)

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"Six Figures on a Green Ground", 1966, color lithograph on Japon nacre, 13 1/4" x 11 1/4"; 336x286mm (sheet size 30 1/4" x 22 1/4"), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin.  Printed by J. E. Wolfensberger, Zurich.  A good impression [Cramer 61].

Henry Moore (1898-1986) was born in Castlewood, Yorkshire. He attended the Leeds Art School and the Royal College of Art, London.  Although he never made the abstract his major concern, Moore's work is more or less in the abstract idiom.  He was an outstanding draughtsman with a generally unmistakable and immediately recognizable style. His drawings completed as a World War II war artist are considered the most poignant records in existence of the effects of bombing on a civilian population.

Henry Moore's early figurative work evolved quickly from a form seemingly inspired by Mexican art into abstract serpentine forms with ambiguous biomorphic shapes that were characteristic of the arts Arp, Picasso and Miro during the early '30s.  For Moore, if shape was to be asserted, it would be more conspicuous if not immediately associated with a reclining women and these entities could be given a form that would evoke a multiplicity of associations and so imply the notion of metamorphosis. Moore's metamorphic forms reveal marvelous and unsuspected likenesses between disparate things, but his revelation is like that of some elemental truth; once recognized, it seems inevitable, it seems right and natural, reasonable and not outlandish or questionable.

Henry Moore's "Six Figures on a Green Ground" is framed in a 42 1/2" x 34 3/8" Larson-Juhl "SoHo" series black frame. The outer Raphael cloud white linen, middle briteure black on blue core and inner Raphael cloud white linen mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ... $2,500.00