July 30, 1898

Henry Moore (July 30, 1898 to August 31, 1986) was the son of a miner and he also worked with earthen materials. His huge bronze sculptures have resulted in his being called the leading English sculptor of the last century. 

His art has occasionally been reduced back to it's component parts, when thieves steal multi-ton sculptures with the idea of selling them for scrap metal.  This was the fate of 

.... a piece called Sundial and also the bronze plinth of another work from the grounds of the Henry Moore Foundation in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. The sculpture [valued at half a million pounds] had been sold for just £46 but, fortunately, was recovered. 

The thieves were jailed, according to The Daily Telegraph for December 5, 2012. Some pieces are still missing like the one pictured below, 

.... stolen from open-air sculpture park in Scotland Standing Figure taken from Glenkiln Sculpture Park in Lincluden Estate, which also features works by Rodin and Epstein...





[E]stimates [are] that metal thefts were costing the UK economy £770m a year.

"Standing Figure" (1950) is seven feet tall and valued at 3 million pounds, and has been missing almost a year. 

The Tate no doubt is keep close guard on the Moore lithograph pictured below. 

This is titled "Woman Holding Cat" and was created between 1949-1951.  The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mentions that Moore's feminine portrayals are often matronly looking, and that Moore explains this by referencing his own mother. 

Here is a key cat detail of the above paper based art.