Henry Moore Sculpture Recalled Amid Fears of Theft
Today’s Telegraph caries a sad tale by Richard Savill about a Henry Moore sculpture, on loan to Exeter University, being recalled eight months early amid fears for its safety.
After a series of thefts of bronze sculptures in the London area last year, culminating in the disappearance of Henry Moore’s Reclining Figure 1969-70 in December and a raid on Lynn Chadwick’s The Three Watchers in January - the Henry Moore Foundation has decided to recall the piece, Reclining Connected Forms, as a precaution as the work was “a fair distance from the buildings” and therefore could be at risk.
As reported earlier on Artistica, police are speculating that the thieves are melting down the bronze figures for their scrap metal value.
Now I’ve always considered myself a bit of a namby-pamby liberal - but if these bastards are melting these works down, then they should be caught and turned over to Dr Gunther von Hagens for what he does best…
Read about it here