Kew Gardens to host largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Moore’s sculptures

Large Two Forms, one of the key pieces of the Henry Moore: Monumental Nature exhibition, which opens next summer. Photograph: Colin Walton/Alamy

Henry Moore believed “sculpture is an art of the open air” and that his works should be seen in “almost any landscape, rather than in or on the most beautiful building”.

Now the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is planning the world’s largest outdoor exhibition devoted to the miner’s son who became one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, it will announce on Monday.