Henry Moore

Head

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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)