Henry Moore's tapestries at Hauser & Wirth
Henry Moore - Two seated women and a child - 1977
From September 23 to November 27, 2021, Hauser & Wirth Gallery is exhibiting in Hong Kong five large tapestries (along with preparatory drawings) by Henry Moore, one of the few modern artists who showed interest in that artistic medium.
Source: Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong. Image: Henry Moore, "Two Seated Women and a Child." © Henry Moore
Widely regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was also the author of a considerable number of monumental tapestries, for which he created preparatory drawings of great expressive power that, in the Gallery's words, "lost nothing of their power in the process” of rendering them on tapestry, despite the fact that the tapestries were often seven or eight times larger than the preparatory drawing.
Moore's tapestries were created in collaboration with West Dean Tapestry Studio, a UK tapestry studio set up professionally in 1976. Henry Moore's daughter, Mary Moore, introduced her father to the West Dean Tapestry Studio in the year of its inception, and helped to choose and supervise the watercolor drawings interpreted into life-size tapestries. In the ten years from the opening of the professional studio until Henry Moore's death, the collaboration between artist and studio resulted in the creation of 23 tapestries, thanks to highly skilled weavers led by Eva-Louise Svensson.
These works, which were created for the artist's family, are on display for the first time in more than a decade. Many of Moore's tapestries feature the theme of mother and child, a point in common with his celebrated sculptures.

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