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Henry Moore

Family Group

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Family Group

bronze

height (including the base): 15.2 cm. 6 in.

Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1956-57 by Fiorini Ltd. The present work is from an edition of 11 plus 1 artist's proof.

Private Collection, London (acquired by the 1970s)

Private Collection, London (thence by descent from the above)

Christie's, London, 19 November 2018, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, New York and Paris, 1968, no. 220, p. 73

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921 – 1969, New York, 1970, pl. 321, another cast illustrated

David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture: 1921 – 48, Vol. 1, London, 1990, no. 232, pp. 14 and 145. another cast illustrated

Claude Allemand-Cosneau, Manfred Fath and David Mitchinson (eds.), Henry Moore: From the Inside Out, Plasters, Carvings and Drawings, Munich, 1996, fig. 50, n.p., terracotta version illustrated

Alan Bowness and David Mitchinson, Celebrating Moore, Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation, Burlington, 2006, no. 144, pp. 210-11, terracotta version illustrated

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Henry Moore in Southern California, 1973, no. 16, another cast

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Moore, 60 Years of His Art, 1983, n.n., pl. 22, terracotta version exhibited