Order of Merit in 1963 and Erasmus Prize in 1968. He was also a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was a trustee of both the National Gallery and Tate Gallery. His proposal that a wing of the latter should be devoted to his sculptures aroused hostility among some artists. In 1975, he became the first President of the Turner Society, which had been founded to campaign for a separate museum in which the whole Turner Bequest might be reunited, an aim defeated by the National Gallery and Tate Gallery. Given to the City of London by Moore and the Contemporary Art Society in 1967, Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 is displayed in Abingdon Street Gardens, opposite the Houses of Parliament, where its regular appearance in the background of televised news reports from Westminster makes it Moore's most prominent piece in Britain. The ownership of Knife Edge Two Piece 1962–65 was disputed until its 2011 acquisition by the Parliamentary Art Collection. Art market By the end of his career, Moore was the world's most successful living artist at auction. In 1982, four years before his death, Sotheby's in New York sold a 6 ft Reclining Figure (1945), for $1.2 million to collector Wendell Cherry. Although a first record of $4.1 million was set in 1990, Moore's market slumped during the recession that followed. In 2012, his eight-foot bronze, Reclining Figure: Festival (1951) sold for a record £19.1 million at Christie's, making him the second most expensive 20th-century British artist after Francis Bacon. Gallery See also List of sculptures by Henry Moore References Works cited Further reading External links Henry Moore Foundation website "The Enigma of Henry Moore" by Brian McAvera. Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001: Vol. 20, No. 6. BBC article with archive film of Moore at work 3D model of Recumbent Figure (1938) from Tate The UNESCO Works of Art Collection An Intimate Moore, Tom Freudenheim, The Wall Street Journal, 30 June 2010 Henry Moore at Kew, 2007 1898 births 1986 deaths Military personnel from Yorkshire 20th-century British sculptors Alumni of Leeds Arts University Alumni of the Royal College of Art British Army personnel of World War I British contemporary artists English people of Irish descent English sculptors English male sculptors Fellows of the British Academy London Regiment soldiers Members of the Order of Merit Members of the Order of