Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.

Collection of William and Judith Green, New York
Private Collection, New York (gift from the above)
James Goodman Gallery, New York

London, Berkeley Square Gallery, Henry Moore: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, 25 September - 11 October 2003, cat. no.25, illustrated in the catalogue;
London, Waddington Galleries, Henry Moore: Sculpture & Drawings, 6 - 30 September 2006.

David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore, Volume 1: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-48, Lund Humphries, London, 1944, revised ed. 1957, no.253, p.16, terracotta version listed;
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Arted Editions d'Art, Paris, 1968, no.237.

 

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Conceived and executed in terracotta in 1945. Cast in 1968 in an edition of four. This sculpture is the sketch-model for the larger, 17 inch long, Reclining figure 1946 (see Lund Humphries, op. cit., no.261, terracotta version, illustrated p.163).

This cast was examined and verified by David Mitchinson of The Henry Moore Foundation on 13 April 2004.