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Property from the Barbara and Lester Levy Collection

Henry Moore

Working Model for Animal Form

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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Barbara and Lester Levy Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Working Model for Animal Form 

inscribed Moore and numbered 4/9

bronze

length: 26 in.

66 cm.

Conceived in 1969-71 and cast by Fiorini Foundry in an edition of 9 plus 1 artist's proof.


This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Private Collection, Texas (acquired in the early 1980s)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Exh. Cat., Wildenstein Tokyo, Henry Moore: Graphic and Sculpture, 1975, no. 9, n.p., illustration of another cast
David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture: With Comments by the Artist, New York 1981, no. 491, pp. 314 and 226, illustration of another cast 
Walter J. Strachan, Henry Moore: Animals, London 1983, nos. 94–95, pp. 102 and 108, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Henry Moore: Maquettes and Working Models, 1987, no. 40, pp. 23 and 16, illustration of another cast 
Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1964–73, vol. 4, London 1991, no. 615, pp. 58-59 and 160-61, illustration of another cast 
Exh. Cat., Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Henry Moore: Sculpture, Drawings, Etchings, Tapestries, 1995, no. 111, p. 193, illustration of another cast
John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, Toronto 1998, no. 546, p. 234, illustration of another cast 
Bremen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus; Berlin, Georg-Kolbe-Museum and Heilbronn, Städtischen Museen, Henry Moore—Animals, 1997–1998, pp. 202 and 48, illustration of another cast 
Saffron Walden Museum; Hertford Museum and Harlow, Gibberd Gallery, Henry Moore Sheep, 2009–2010, illustration of another cast