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A statue by British sculptor Henry Moore made its long-awaited return to Greenwich Park this morning.

Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge, made by Moore in 1976, has been restored to the plinth on which it stood between 1979 and 2007, where it will be on display for the next two years.

A sculpture by British artist Henry Moore is being returned to Greenwich Park more than four years after it was removed.

Moore's 1976 work Large Standing Figure: Knife Edge will be sited on its original plinth next week on a two year loan from the Henry Moore Foundation. It had stood on the spot from 1979 until 2007.

A sculpture by Henry Moore owned by Tower Hamlets Council is set to be moved to Canary Wharf.

"Draped Seated Woman", produced by the sculptor in 1957, is worth millions of pounds but has been on loan to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1997.

There is a school of thought which demands that public authorities divest themselves of all interests that could be considered peripheral, frivolous or beyond the ken of bureaucrats.

Anything from Christmas lights to Town Hall portraits should go in some kind of Cromwellian austerity drive, paring down council tax to fund just the routine basics.

Tower Hamlets owns a sculpture worth millions, designed by a world-famous artist.
Sadly, you have to trundle more than 200 miles north to see it.

Avant-garde Yorkshire-born sculptor Henry Moore created Draped Seated Woman for the borough in 1957 while working on a commission for the Unesco headquarters in Paris.

EXHIBITION
Henry Moore
Tate Britain
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IN A NUTSHELL
In the most important exhibition of the sculptor's work since his death, visitors are invited to re-appraise the genius.