Henry Moore

This beautiful sculpture by Henry Moore, entitled Mother and Child: Round Form, is a wonderful example of Moore’s figurative work capturing one of his most important themes: mother and child. The depiction of the mother holding the child on her lap demonstrates the close relationship and tenderness between the two. The emotional connotations this theme held for Moore, this combination of two connected forms, provided him with a vast range of formal and spatial possibilities to explore in the medium of sculpture. Moore’s investigations into the relationship into internal and external forms was depicted in many of his sculptures as an ongoing theme. As the artist commented, “The mother and child idea is one of my two or three obsessions, one of my inexhaustible subjects. The subject itself is eternal and unending, with so many sculptural possibilities in it — a small form in relation to a big form, the big from protecting the small one, and so on. It is such a rich subject, both humanly and compositionally, that I will always go on using it.”