RARE \"Sculpter\" Henry Moore Signed Picture Postcard COA For Sale

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RARE \"Sculpter\" Henry Moore Signed Picture Postcard COA:
$419.99

Up for sale a RARE! "Sculpter" Henry Moore Hand Signed Picture Postcard. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Moore OM CH FBA (30

July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his

semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located

around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced

many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other

graphic works on paper. His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure,

typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are

usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he

sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow

spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to

the landscape and hills of his Yorkshire birthplace. Moore became well known through his

carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was

instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later

life to fulfil large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Despite

this, he lived frugally; most of the money he earned went towards endowing

the Henry Moore Foundation,

which continues to support education and promotion of the arts. Moore was born

in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire,

England, to Mary (née Baker) and Raymond Spencer Moore. His father was Irish

and became pit deputy and then under-manager of the Wheldale colliery in Castleford. He was an autodidact with an interest in music and literature.

Determined that his sons would not work in the mines, he saw formal education

as the route to their advancement. Henry was the seventh of eight children in a

family that often struggled with poverty. He attended infant and elementary

schools in Castleford, where he began modelling in clay and

carving in wood. He professed to have decided to become a sculptor when he was

eleven after hearing of Michelangelo's achievements at a Sunday School reading.

On his second attempt he was accepted at Castleford Grammar School,

which several of his siblings had attended, where his headmaster soon noticed

his talent and interest in medieval sculpture. His art teacher broadened his knowledge of art,

and with her encouragement, he determined to make art his career; first by

sitting for examinations for a scholarship to the local art college. Moore's earliest recorded carvings – a plaque

for the Scott Society at Castleford Secondary School, and a Roll of Honour

commemorating the boys who went to fight in the First World War from the school

– were executed around this time. Despite

his early promise, Moore's parents had been against him training as a sculptor,

a vocation they considered manual labour with few career prospects. After a

brief introduction as a student teacher, Moore became a teacher at the school

he had attended. Upon turning eighteen, Moore volunteered for

army service in the First World War. He was

the youngest man in the Prince of

Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles regiment and was injured in

1917 in a gas attack, on 30 the Battle of Cambrai. After recovering in hospital, he saw out the

remainder of the war as a physical training instructor, only returning to France

as the Armistice was

signed. He recalled later, "for me the war passed in a romantic haze of

trying to be a hero."  This

attitude changed as he reflected on the destructiveness of war and in 1940 he

wrote, in a letter to his friend Arthur Sale, that "a year or two after

[the war] the sight of a khaki uniform began to mean everything in life that

was wrong and wasteful and anti-life. And I still have that

feeling."

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