LOCKING PIECE.—A nine feet high bronze, in two parts which fit together like a child’s puzzle, by Henry Moore. It does not resemble any one thing but is full of different images as you walk round it. There is a portion that resembles an elephant's foot, there are scraps of landscape and of natural objects, and there are bits and pieces of many faces, including a fragment of T. S. Eliot’s nose. The sculpture, purchased by a Brussels bank, is the end result of thousands of things seen and things touched. Moore was sitting idly one day, his hands playing with a pile of small stones. Two of the stones accidentally locked, making a perfect fit. This gave him the idea for this piece, the photograph of which is included in “Henry Moore” by Donald Hall, a book reviewed on this page.

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LOCKING PIECE.—A nine feet high bronze, in two parts which fit together like a child’s puzzle, by Henry Moore. It does not resemble any one thing but is full of different images as you walk round it. There is a portion that resembles an elephant's foot, there are scraps of landscape and of natural objects, and there are bits and pieces of many faces, including a fragment of T. S. Eliot’s nose. The sculpture, purchased by a Brussels bank, is the end result of thousands of things seen and things touched. Moore was sitting idly one day, his hands playing with a pile of small stones. Two of the stones accidentally locked, making a perfect fit. This gave him the idea for this piece, the photograph of which is included in “Henry Moore” by Donald Hall, a book reviewed on this page.