Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Butterfly in Berlin


This is Henry Moore's (English sculptor) heaviest bronze sculpture, "Large Divided Oval: Butterfly," which has been restored in Berlin. It weighs nearly nine tons, and it was his final major work. He completed it just before he died in 1986. "Butterfly" stands in the middle of a circular basin, outside the entrance to Berlin's House of World Cultures, a center for non-European arts.