Lot 53
  • 53

Henry Moore

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Standing Mother and Child
  • Inscribed Moore and numbered 6/9
  • Bronze
  • Height: 9 in.
  • 22.7 cm
  • Conceived in 1975 and cast in an edition of 9+1.

Provenance

Weintraub Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Orleans (acquired from the above in 1983) 
Thence by descent to the present owner

Literature

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, 1974-80, vol. 5, London, 1983, no. 683, illustration of another cast p. 27

Condition

Bronze with a brown green patina on a 1 3/4 x 6 x 6 black stone base. Surface in generally good condition. There is a 1 1/2 inch scratch visible by the signature on the base of the sculpture. Some surface dirt in the deeper crevices. In otherwise good condition.
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