LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with a green patina

Size Notes:

20 in. (50.8 cm.) high

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Leicester Galleries, New Bronzes by Henry Moore, February - March 1954, no. 5, another cast exhibited. New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Henry Moore, November - December 1954, no. 25, another cast exhibited. Hamburg, British Council, Kunstverein, Henry Moore, May - July 1960, no. 28, another cast exhibited. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Henry Moore: Sculpture 1950-1960, November - December 1960, no. 10, another cast exhibited. Rome, British Council, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Henry Moore, Janurary - February 1961, no. 26, another cast exhibited. London, Arts Council, Henry Moore: an exhibition of sculpture and drawings, February - March 1962, no. 21, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to York, City Art Gallery, March - April 1962; and Nottingham, The Castle, April - May 1962. Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Henry Moore to Gilbert & George: Modern British Art from the Tate Gallery, September - November 1973, no. 41, another cast exhibited. London, Tate Gallery, The Henry Moore Gift, June - August 1978, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited. New York, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Mother and Child: the Art of Henry Moore, September - November 1987, no. 38, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to University Park, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, December 1987 - January 1988; Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, December 1987 - January 1988; and Baltimore, The Baltimore Art Museum, February - April 1988. Paris, Didier Fine Arts, Henry Moore: Intime, April - July 1992, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Henry Moore 1898-1986, March - August 1998, no. 27, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced. Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Henry Moore: Rétrospective, July - November 2002, no. 116, another cast exhibited. Mexico, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Henry Moore y México, June - October 2005, no. 40, another cast exhibited. London, Hauser and Wirth, Henry Moore: Ideas For Sculpture, October - November 2008, no. 62, another cast exhibited. London, Tate Britain, Henry Moore, February - August 2010, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited: this exhibition also travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; and Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery. Norwich, City Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Relative Values: The Family in British Art, October 2011 - Janurary 2012, another cast exhibited, this exhibition travelled to: Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, February - April 2012; and Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery, May - September 2012.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, New Bronzes by Henry Moore, London, Leicester Galleries, 1954, n.p., no. 5, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, 1954, n.p., no. 25, another cast illustrated. E. Neumann, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, London, 1959, p. 117, pl. 91, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, Hamburg, British Council, Kunstverein, 1960, n.p., no. 28, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Sculpture 1950-1960, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1960, n.p., no. 10, another cast illustrated. P. Bucarelli (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, Rome, British Council, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1961, n.p., no. 26, another cast illustrated. H. Read, Henry Moore: A Study of His Life and Work, London, 1965, p. 176, pl. 156, another cast illustrated. R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 357, no. 469, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore to Gilbert & George: Modern British Art from the Tate Gallery, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1973, pp. 52, 139, another cast illustrated. H. Moore, 'Henry Moore Talks About his Life as a Sculptor', Listener, 24 January 1974, p. 105, another cast, not traced. Exhibition catalogue, The Henry Moore Gift, London, Tate Gallery, 1978, p. 31, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated. F. Russoli and D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore Sculpture: with comments by the artist, London, 1981, p. 115, no. 227, another cast illustrated. A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore Complete Sculpture 1949-54, Vol. 2, London, 1986, p. 39, no. 315, pl. 83, another cast illustrated. R. Berthoud, The Life of Henry Moore, London, 1987, n.p., no. 108, another cast illustrated. G. Gelburd (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Mother and Child: the Art of Henry Moore, New York, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University Hempstead, 1987, p. 60, no. 38, another cast illustrated. A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987, p. 141, no. 87a, plaster version illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Intime, Paris, Didier Fine Arts, 1992, p. 89, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated. P. McCaughey, Henry Moore and the Heroic: A Centenary Tribute, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 1999, n.p., no. 12, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Rétrospective, Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 2002, p. 145, no. 116, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore y México, Mexico, Museo Dolores Olmedo, 2005, pp. 70, 113, no. 40, another cast illustrated. G. Muir (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Ideas For Sculpture, London, Hauser and Wirth, 2010, p. 150, no. 62, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Relative Values: The Family in British Art, Norwich, City Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2011, pp. 11-12, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

Provenance:

Ned L. Pines, New York. His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1990, lot 282, where purchased by the present owner.