Henry Moore

Working Model for Reclining Figure: Hand

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Henry Moore

(1898 - 1986)

Working Model for Reclining Figure: Hand

inscribed Moore and numbered 2/9

bronze

length: 34 in. 86.5 cm.

Conceived in 1978 and cast in an edition of nine plus one artist's proof.

Estate of the artist

Jeffrey Loria, New York

Private Collection, Los Angeles

Acquired on 5 March 2001 by the present owner

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings: Sculpture 1974-80, vol. 5, London, 1983, no. 708, p. 31; illustration of another cast; pls. 102-03, illustration of another cast (dated 1976-78)

Columbus Museum of Art (and traveling), Henry Moore: The Reclining Figure, 1984-85, nos. 67, 67a and 67b, p. 98, illustrations of other casts (dated 1976-78)

Exh. Cat., Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts (and traveling), Henry Moore: From the Inside Out, 1996-97, no. 107, p. 170, illustration in color of the plaster

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Henry Moore: L’atelier, 2010-11, no. 198, p. 193, illustration in color of the plaster

Exh. Cat., San Diego Museum of Art, Albuquerque Museum and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, O’Keeffe and Moore, 2023-24, no. 61, p. 52; p. 101, illustration in color of another cast