It is hard to imagine now that I met Henry Moore some 40
years ago on my first visit to the Henry Moore Foundation.
The Foundation have always been exceptionally generous
with their time and expertise, notably David Mitchinson who
for a remarkable 42 years was Curator and Director and to this
day is still as helpful and supportive as ever. In my early days
in the art world I was also helped enormously by such
legendary Henry Moore dealers as Jacob Weintraub and
Alex Rosenberg in New York, James Goodman as well and of
course Ryunosuke Kasahara in Japan who I also first met 40
years ago on the first of many trips to that country. Before
long I began to organise exhibitions of the work of Henry
Moore in galleries around the world. We must have also
done a dozen Moore shows at my galleries, not just in
London but in our spaces in New York and Tokyo. Our most
recent was the well received 2015 exhibition in Mayfair at the
Bruton Street gallery before we moved up Bond Street to
Dering Street. Gordon Samuel shares my passion for British
sculpture as does my colleague and fellow Director Tania
Sutton who has curated many of our sculpture exhibitions,
including this one. Organising an exhibition of this complexity
would normally take years of planning, because of the
pandemic we have had to compress the time available into a
matter of months.
PREFACE
by Peter Osborne
Detail from:
Head: Lines, 1955
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