Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Harry W. And Mary Margaret Anderson
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
HENRY MOORE
1898 - 1986
RECLINING CONNECTED FORMS
inscribed with the artist’s name, numbered 2/9 and inscribed with the foundry mark Morris Singer Founders London
bronze
Length: 88 in.
223.5 cm
Conceived in 1969, the present work was cast by 1971 and is from an edition of 9 plus 1 artist’s proof.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1974
Richard Gilbert, Fusion Sculpture, London 1971
“Great to Have a Henry Moore on Campus Again,” Yorkshire Evening Press, September 1973, (another cast illustrated)
David Finn, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Environment, New York 1976, pp. 62-66, illustrated in color, pp. 318-320, illustrated, and pp. 356-359, (another cast illustrated)
Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture 1964-73, London 1977, vol. 4, no. 612, pp. 58-59, illustrated, and pp. 150-153, no. 612, (another cast illustrated)
Peter Stern and David Collens, Sculpture at Storm King, New York 1980, p. 32 and pp. 107-108, (another cast illustrated)
David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, New York 1981, pp. 228-229, (another cast illustrated)
Donald Richardson, Introducing Art, London 1984, p. 181, (another cast illustrated)
John Beardsley, A Landscape for Modern Sculpture: Storm King Art Center, New York 1985, p. 19 and 62, (another cast illustrated)
Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore, 1898-1986: Four Monumental Sculptures, 1988, (another cast illustrated)
John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, New York 1998, p. 235, no. 544 (another cast illustrated)
David Mitchinson, ed., Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of The Henry Moore Foundation, London 1998, p. 298, no. 225 (another cast illustrated)
Munich, Staatsgalerie für Moderne Kunst, Henry Moore 1961-1971, October - November 1971, p. 33, no. 33, illustrated
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000 - January 2001, p. 4, illustrated in color (detail), p. 248, fig. 66, illustrated in color (detail), p. 275, pl. 158, illustrated in color, and p. 376, no. 187 (text)