Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction

Henry Moore

Maquette for Mother with Child on Lap

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Maquette for Mother with Child on Lap

signed Moore and numbered 5/9 (on the base)

bronze

height (including integral base): 14.5 cm. 5¾ in.

Conceived in 1982 and cast by Fiorini Ltd, London, this work is number 5 from an edition of 9.

Acquired directly from the artist in the early 1980s

Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, Vol. 6, Sculpture 1980-86, Lund Humphries, 1988, London, no. LH 869, illustrated p. 51

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