Three Standing Figures 1947 is a large stone sculpture by Henry Moore. It was made in 1947–48, and exhibited at London County Council's first Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition at Battersea Park in 1948. Donated to the council, it has been exhibited at the park since 1950. It became a Grade II listed building in 1988.
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Unexpectedly chance upon this, positioned on a mild knoll against a curtain of trees. “... I wanted to overlay it with a sense of relief and create figures conscious of being in open air, they have a lifted gaze.....” * Inspired from a recollection of a group of women emerging from a WWII bomb shelter. Sculpted in English Darleydale stone, 1948. An ambivalent and disconnected trio, a commonality of dread...
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This statue, as I understand it, represents three London women looking skywards during the German bombing Blitz on London during World War Two. I'm not an art fan, but I found these figures quite haunting. Their eyes scanning skywards and their body language seem to eminate a sense of...
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Three Standing Figures is a Sculpture by one of the greatest British artists: Henry Moore. The Three Standing Figures are based on his work in the bomb shelters during the Second World War. It represents three identifiably female forms that are “conscious of being in the open air”, looking at...
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