Upon graduating from the Royal College in 1924, Moore was appointed a part-time instructor in sculpture there for a seven-year term. He began working in 1926 on depictions of reclining women, which ...

A work like Two Piece Reclining Figure: Points, from 1969, has the feel that Moore aimed at — but didn’t always achieve — of form as primal matter.

A sculpture by Henry Moore is normally hard to miss. Works by the 20th century British artist are dotted throughout the world: from a commission outside the Unesco office in Paris, to Knife Edge ...