Lot 303
  • 303

HENRY MOORE | Mother and Child: Arm

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Mother and Child: Arm
  • Inscribed Moore and numbered 8/9 
  • Bronze 
  • Height: 5 1/4 in.
  • 13.3 cm
  • Conceived in 1979 and cast in a numbered edition of 9 plus 1 artist's proof by the Fiorini Foundry, London.

Provenance

Weintraub Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)
Acquired from the above on December 12, 1981

Literature

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1974-1980, vol. 5, London, 1994, p. 46, no. 768, illustration of another cast p. 47

Condition

Variegated brown and green patina. There are accretions of dirt in the deeper crevices. There are signs of verdigris in the crevices where the bronze figures meet the bronze base and under the mother's legs and arms. There is a small crack to the bronze base where the bronze figures meet the bronze base, possibly inherent to the casting process. The work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.