A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Henry Moore

Reclining Figure

Auction Closed

November 19, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

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Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Reclining Figure 

bronze 

length: 27 ¾ in. 75.6 cm.

Conceived in 1957 and cast by Art Bronze Foundry (Gaskin's) in 1957-59; this example is cast G from an edition of 12 plus 1 artist’s proof.


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

Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes, Zurich

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (half-share acquired from the above in January 1960)

Roger Kellogg-Stillson, New York (acquired from the above on 1 March 1960)

Private Collection, New York 

Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 88 (consigned by the above)

Weintraub Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1998, lot 333 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawing, Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1965, no. 413, p. 24, pls. 38a-38b, illustrations of another cast 

Herbert Read, Henry Moore, A Study of His Life and Work, London, 1965, p. 141, pl. 196, illustration of another cast

Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, no. 407, p. 82

Henry Moore and John Hedgecoe, eds., Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 151, fig. 5, illustration of another cast; p. 527

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1970, pp. 338 and 360, pls. 541 and 544, illustrations of another cast; pl. XXIII, illustration in color of another cast (with incorrect dimensions)

Giulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, New York, 1972, nos. 139 and 140, illustrations of another cast

David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, with Comments by the Artist, London, 1981, no. 294, p. 141, illustration in color of another cast; p. 312

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawing, Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1986, no. 413, p. 30, illustration of another cast; p. 31, pls. 40-41, illustrations of another cast

Henry Moore Foundation, ed., Henry Moore: Catalogue Raisonné, no. LH 413, https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/25270/reclining-figure (accessed 21 October 2024)