Focus on King and Queen (sculpture) and analyze the Casts.
Moore completed a full-size model in plaster in 1953,and it was cast at the Art Bronze Foundry in London, using the lost wax technique to create pieces that were then welded together, to create an edition of 4+1 (four for sale, and one artist's copy).  A fifth numbered cast and second artist's copy were cast later.
The first full-size cast of the sculpture was exhibited at the Second Biennial for Sculpture at Middelheim Park in Antwerp in 1953.  It was bought by the city of Antwerp for the Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, where it remains.  It measures 170 by 150 by 95 centimetres (67 in × 59 in × 37 in).
The second cast was bought by Sir William Keswick in 1954 and installed on his estate at Glenkiln in Kirkcudbrightshire, on a rock outcrop looking over Glenkiln Loch.  It was formerly part of the Glenkiln Sculpture Park. This cast was decapitated in 1995 but later restored.A third cast was exhibited at the Curt Valentin Gallery in New York, was bought by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, and is now in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.A fourth cast was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in London in February 1954, to mixed reviews, some disliking the mixture of figurative and abstract elements.  It was described by Robert Melville in 1954 as "Moore's finest achievement since the war, and probably the most graceful of all his works".  It was bought by newspaper editor David Astor, and displayed at his home in St John's Wood, until sold to the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena in 1976.A fifth cast was made for the Tate Gallery in 1957, acquired using funds donated by Associated Rediffusion, delivered in early 1959.  It measures 163.5 by 138.5 by 84.5 centimetres (64.4 in × 54.5 in × 33.3 in)
The original artist's copy (cast 0) is now in the collection of the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Japan.  A second artist's copy, cast 00, was created in the 1980s for the Henry Moore Foundation, and is displayed at Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Robert Melville Glenkiln Sculpture Park Henry Moore Foundation Associated Rediffusion William Keswick Joseph H. Hirshhorn Henry Moore Tate Tate Gallery Norton Simon Museum of Art MOA Museum of Art Leicester Galleries Perry Green, Hertfordshire Curt Valentin St John's Wood Atami lost wax Curt Valentin Gallery Norton Simon Museum Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum David Astor Art Bronze Foundry Middelheim Park