Henry Moore once titled this standing figure Winged Victory. With her truncated arms and neck and elongated, protruding torso, she indeed recalls the famed Greek figure of that name. But the real inspiration for this creature was the breastbone of a bird. Moore discovered principles of form and rhythm for his sculptures in a variety of natural objects, such as rocks and plants. He had a particular fascination with bones and collected, studied, and drew them extensively to explore their complexity and dynamism. He incorporated the actual bird bone into an early maquette for this sculpture, eventually infusing its “knife-edge thinness” throughout the entire figure and retaining the rough, porous texture of bone in the work’s bronze surface. Viewed from differing perspectives, the sculpture appears alternately razor sharp or rhythmically curvaceous.