LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with a brown patina

Size Notes:

height including bronze base

Edition:

8 of 12

Markings:

signed and numbered 'Moore 8/12' (on the edge of the base)

Exhibited:

Lisbon, British Council, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Henry Moore, September - November 1981, no. 110, another cast exhibited. London, Royal Academy, Henry Moore, September - December 1988, no. 186, another cast exhibited. Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art, Henry Moore Intime, September - November 1992, no. 2, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, November 1992 - January 1993; Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, April - May 1993; and Oita, The Oita Prefectural Museum of Art, June - August 1993. Moscow, Kremlin Museums, Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture, February - May 2012, no. 44, another cast exhibited.

Literature:

R. Melville, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, n.p., pl. 741, another cast illustrated. A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture: 1964-73, Vol. 4, London, 1977, p. 54, no. 595, pls. 116-117, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, Lisbon, British Council, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1981, p. XL, no. 110, 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, pp. 232-233, no. 182, plaster version illustrated. S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, London, Royal Academy, 1988, pp. 115, 264, no. 186, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore Intime, Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 103, 191, no. 2, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture, Moscow, Kremlin Museums, 2012, pp. 172-173, no. 44, another cast illustrated.

Provenance:

with James Kirkman, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1985.