Maquette

A maquette is model for a larger piece of sculpture, created in order to visualise how it might look and to work out approaches and materials for how it might be made

Maquettes are often fascinating works in their own right, conveying the immediacy of the artist’s first realisation of an idea.

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selected artworks in the collection

Henry Moore OM, CH Maquette for Family Group

1945
Lynn Chadwick Inner Eye (Maquette III)

1952
Antoine Pevsner Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit

1952

On display at Tate Modern part of Artist and Society
Dame Barbara Hepworth Maquette, Three Forms in Echelon

1961

On display at Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden part of Barbara Hepworth

Maquette

selected artworks in the collection

Henry Moore OM, CH Maquette for Family Group

Lynn Chadwick Inner Eye (Maquette III)

Antoine Pevsner Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit

Dame Barbara Hepworth Maquette, Three Forms in Echelon

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