Henry Moore
Mother with Child on Back
Estimate:
10,000
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Mother with Child on Back
Inscribed Moore, numbered 6/9 and stamped with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin
Bronze
Height: 6 ½ in.
16.5 cm
Conceived in 1965 and cast in 1969 in a numbered edition of 9 plus one artist's proof by the H. Noack Foundry, Berlin.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.
Variegated light brown patina. Light rubbing to the extremities. Light dust in crevices. Otherwise, fine. The sculpture is in good condition.
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Acquired from the above by the present owner
Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Henry Moore, 1972, no. 139, illustrated in the catalogue