Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS C. ADLER AND FAMILY
Henry Moore
Head
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Head
white alabaster
height (excluding base): 19.5cm.; 7¾in.; depth (excluding base): 22.5cm.; 8¾in.; width (excluding base): 5.5cm.; 2¼in.
height (including base): 27cm.; 10½in.; depth (including base): 22.5cm.; 8¾in.; width (including base): 6.5cm.; 2½in.
Carved in 1929, the present work is unique.
This work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as LH 73.
Ben Nicholson (acquired directly from the Artist by exchange), 1931
Gimpel Fils, London
Acquired from the above by Thomas C. Adler, Cincinnati in 1955, and thence by descent to the present owner
Herbert Read, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Lund Humphries, London, 1949
John Hedgecoe, Henry Spencer Moore, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968, illustrated p. 54, fig. 1
David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1948, vol. I, London, Lund Humphries, 1988, no. 73, illustrated p. 53
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Arted, Paris, 1968, no. 62, p. 67
Marina Lambraki-Plaka, Six Leading Sculptors and the Human Figure: Rodin, Bourdelle, Maillol, Brancusi, Giacometti, Moore, (exh. cat.), Cultural Olympiad, Athens, 2004
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, April 1931, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue p. 9
Leeds, Temple Newsam Art Gallery, L.A.C.F. Members Exhibition, 1952, no. 178 (as Girl's Head)
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