British and Irish Art

Adrian Clark Art Commentator and Historian

Tag: Henry Moore

  • British art in America

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    Back from New York and Minneapolis. In MOMA saw various Francis Bacon’s: a 1991 triptych, which must have been one of his last pictures; a Pope; and Study of a Baboon from 1953. The latter came from James Thrall Soby. I have come across him in the context of my Peter Watson research, as correspondence…

  • Vienna

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    Just back from Vienna where we saw a Henry Moore sculpture called Hill Arches in the Karlsplatz outside the Karlskirche and a Francis Bacon (Seated Figure of 1960) in the Albertina. Otherwise we were conscious that we were in the City where Cecil Beaton met Watson for the first time in the Summer of 1930.

  • Henry Moore at Perry Green, edited by Sandra Pisano

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    London, 2011, ISBN 978 1 85759 683 0, £12.95Review published in the British Art Journal, Volume XII No. 1, Summer 2011 Perry Green provides an extraordinary range of experiences. One visits the home of the artist, the studios in which he worked, special exhibitions of his work, the gardens containing major sculptural pieces and (by…