Lot 75
  • 75

Henry Moore

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Mother with child on knee
  • Inscribed Moore and numbered 8/9
  • Bronze
  • Height: 6 in.
  • 15.2 cm.
  • Conceived in 1982 and cast in an edition of 9.

Provenance

By descent to the present owner

Literature

David Sylvester & Alan Bowness, Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1977-1988, vol. 6, London, 1999, no. 874, illustration of another cast p. 54

Condition

This bronze has a dark brown patina. There are some minor accretions where the mother joins the block of bronze and a small green mark on the back of the base. There are some very minor accretions and small scratches along the bottom edge of the base.
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