HENRY MOORE | RECLINING FIGURE

Artist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION

HENRY MOORE

1898 - 1986

RECLINING FIGURE

inscribed Moore and numbered 2/4

bronze

length: 41.5cm., 16⅜in.

Conceived in 1946 and cast in bronze in 1968 in an edition of 4 plus 1 artist’s proof.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation under no. 2019.53.

James Goodman Gallery, New York

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1970)

Acquired from the above circa 1971-72

D. Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, London, 1957, vol. I, no. 261, the terracotta catalogued p. 16 & illustrated p. 163

E. Neumann, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, New York, 1959, no. 60, the terracotta illustrated p. 92

I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, no. 247, the terracotta listed p. 75

D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore Sculpture, Paris, 1984, no. 182, another cast illustrated p. 96

D. Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore. Complete Sculpture 1921-48, London, 1988, vol. I, no. 261, the terracotta catalogued p. 16 & illustrated p. 163