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Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge

Artist Henry Moore British, 1898–1986

Date1961, cast 1976

MediumBronze

DimensionsH. (including base) 137 1/2 in. (349.3.cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineBequest of Gordon Hanes

Object number97.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceGordon Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC; bequeathed to NCMA, 1997Published ReferencesAnita Feldman Bennett, “A Sculptor’s Collection,” in Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), mentioned 56, illus. (b-w) cat. no. 77 (not NCMA’s cast).

Huston Paschal, entry for Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 232, illus. (color).

Huston Paschal, entry for Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 494, illus. (color) 495.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions,” September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)

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