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.
Montreal
Dorchester Square
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Family Group 1944 (LH 233)
- Family Group 1945 (LH 235)
- Reclining Figure 1945 (LH 252)
- Working Model for Reclining Figure: Internal External Form (LH 298)
- Study for Head of Queen 1952 (LH 349a)
- Study for Head of Warrior 1953 (LH 358a)
- Draped Reclining Figure 1956 (LH 411)
- Woman 1957-58 (LH 439)
- Maquette for Seated Figure. Arms Outstretched 1960 (LH 463)
- Draped Seated Figure: Headless 1961 (LH 485)
- Mother and Child: Wheels 1962 (LH 510)
- Large Totem Head 1968 (LH 577)
bronze
height 25.5cm
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.
Quoted in Phillip James (ed), Henry Moore on Sculpture, New York 1992, p.267