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A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Henry Moore

Two Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette No. 1

Auction Closed

May 20, 02:46 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A New Vista: The David and Shoshanna Wingate Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Two Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette No. 1

inscribed Moore, numbered 9/12 and stamped with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (on the base)

bronze

length: 9 ½ in. 24.1 cm.

Conceived in 1960; this example cast in an edition of 12 plus 2 artist’s proofs.


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

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (acquired by 1975)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1978, lot 86

Fischer Fine Art, London (acquired at the above sale)

The Waddington Galleries, London

Private Collection

Sotheby’s, New York, 19 May 1983, lot 377 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1965, no. 473, pl. 127a, illustration of another cast; p. 29

John Hedgecoe and Henry Moore, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 372, illustration of another cast

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1970, pl. 584, illustration of another cast; p. 361

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1986, no. 473, pp. 46-47, illustration of another cast