Henry Moore Works in Public
This is a guide to Moore's sculptures on public display throughout the world. We strive to ensure that all information is accurate, however we recommend that you contact each venue before making a visit. Please also contact us if you spot any mistakes. In some instances it has not been possible to source an image of the actual sculpture in-situ, and on such occasions an alternative image has been used.
Brussels
Banque Lambert
Musee d Art moderne
bronze
height 20.5cm
The idea for ‘The Warrior’ came to me at the end of 1952 or very early in 1953. It was evolved from a pebble I found on the seashore in the summer of 1952, and which reminded me of the stump of a leg, amputated at the hip. Just as Leonardo says somewhere in his notebooks that a painter can find a battle scene in the lichen marks on a wall, so this gave me the start of ‘The Warrior’ idea . . . The head has a blunted and bull-like power but also a sort of dumb animal acceptance and forbearance of pain.
Henry Moore quoted in John Russell, Henry Moore, Allan Lane, The Penguin Press, London 1968, p.28