Focus on Three Standing Figures 1947 and explore the Description.
The 7 feet (2.1 m) high stone statue comprises three standing women, draped in flowing garments: two standing closer together, observed by the third.  Each has rudimentary facial features, such as eye holes.
Moore's draped figures developed from a series of drawings inspired by his observations of people in underground bomb shelters during the Second World War. In 1968, Moore commented that "it is as though the three women are standing there, expecting something to happen from the sky"  Sylvester published an essay in The Burlington Magazine in 1948 with an unusual interpretation, as a family group: the protective mother, the stern father, and the child on the far right.
Second World War The Burlington Magazine bomb shelter