Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henry Moore, R.A.
Mother and Child: Arch
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June 6, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Mother and Child: Arch
signed Moore and numbered 2/6 (on the base of the left leg); also signed Moore (on the base)
bronze
height: 40.5cm.; 16in.
width: 47cm.; 18½in.
depth: 25cm.; 10in.
Conceived in 1959 and cast by Gaskin in 1967, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 6 plus 1 Artist's Cast.
The present work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as LH 453a, cast 2.
Marlborough Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, 1967
Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1964-73, vol. IV, London, Lund Humphries, 1977, no. 453a, illustrated p.33 (another cast)
Herbert Read (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, vol. III, London, Lund Humphries, 1986, no. 453a, p. 42, illustrated pl. 85 (another cast)
London, Marlborough Gallery, Recent Acquisitions, July - August 1967, no. 22, illustrated in the exh. cat. (another cast)
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Henry Moore: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, 1974, no. 142
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore: Back to a Land, 2015, illustrated in the exh. cat. pp. 122-23 and p. 153 (another cast)
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