Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads by Tobias Capwell and Hannah Higham Prints and editions Sir Richard Wallace: The Collector

Sir Richard Wallace: The Collector

ISBN 9780900785917

These bronzes d'ameublement - from Clocks and mounted Sevres Porcelain to Wall Lights and Candelabra - epitomised the levels of luxury achieved in Parisian interiors

The Wallace Collection has an internationally-renowned collection of French Eighteenth-Century art but perhaps lesser known today is their stunning collection of gilt-bronze objects

You can marvel in person at Jean Ducrollay's talent in our Boudoir Cabinet on the first floor of the Museum

Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads by Tobias Capwell and Hannah Higham Prints and editions Sir Richard Wallace: The CollectorThe idea of one form inside another form may owe some of its incipient beginnings to my interest at one stage when I discovered armour. I spent many hours in the Wallace Collection, in London, looking at armour.' Henry Moore, 1980. Coinciding with the major exhibition of the same name, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads traces the footsteps of the artist through the armouries of the Wallace Collection, where he encountered 'objects of power' that