Michael Donnelly
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Artist Michael Donnelly
Title Henry Moore Land
Year 2008
Medium Oil on Canvas
Height 115
Width 146 cm
Price $5500
   
From the Exhibition 'Other Lands', Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Caulfield, Vic. 9 - 19 July 2009
Photographed by David McArthur, Parallax Photography

On a 2007 visit to England the artist had the good fortune to receive a tour of the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, just to the north east of London. Henry Moore was a major international figure in the world of sculpture. The Henry Moore Foundation is housed on the sculptor’s original rural property. Many of his monumental sculptures are to be found carefully placed around the site and Henry Moore’s workshops may be viewed, left the way he had them at the time of his death in the late 1980’s. In the painting the viewer is invited to travel around the rich green, tilting landscape following the various paths and hedge rows of the grounds. Henry Moore himself, can be seen walking along the path to his workshops and following him are numerous small models or maquettes of his sculptures. A detail from this painting appears on the 'Other Lands' exhibition invitation.

 

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