Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge

“I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of art and nature,” said Moore. His interest in both the natural world and the human form coalesce in this sculpture, a winged figure that references both a bird and the well-known work of ancient art *Winged Victory of Samothrace*, in the Louvre in Paris. For his sculpture Moore started with a form inspired by the knife-edge thinness of a bird’s breastbone. He then added an abstracted head and arms, elaborating the torso with drapery and drawing out an affinity with Greek sculpture. The work retains a suggestion of a wingspread and, with the wings’ diagonal orientation, a sensation of rising skyward.