Henry Moore

Two Piece Reclining Figure: Holes

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June 28, 02:51 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Two Piece Reclining Figure: Holes

signed Moore and numbered 5/7 (on the base)

bronze

height (not including base): 9cm.; 3½in.; height (including integral base): 10.5cm.; 4in.

width (not including base): 19cm.; 7½in.; width (including integral base): 21cm.; 8¼in.

Conceived and cast by Fiorini in 1975 , the present work is number 5 from an edition of 9 plus 1 Artist's cast.

The present work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as LH 666, cast 5.

Please note that the Henry Moore Foundation are aware of numbering of this particular cast out of 7 and are satisfied that this also ties in with their records, despite LH 666 being an edition of 9.

Bo Boustedt, Nice, from whom acquired by the parents of the present owner in the late 1970s, and thence by descent

London, Thomas Gibson, 80/80, 1978, illustrated p. 45 (another cast)
Nantes, Musée des Beuax Arts and Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, Henry Moore: From the Inside Out, Plasters, Carvings and Drawings, 1996-97, illustrated p. 164 (plaster version)

Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1974-80, Lund Humphries, London, 1983, vol. V, no. 666, illustrated (another cast)