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Artist |
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Henry Moore |
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Title |
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Draped reclining woman
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Medium |
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bronze with brown patina |
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Size |
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82 x 0 in. / 208.3 x 0 cm. |
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Year |
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1957 - 1958 |
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Description |
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Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Draped Reclining Woman
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Moore 5/6 H. NOACK BERLIN' (on the reverse)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 82 in. (208.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1957-1958 and cast in an edition of six in the artist's lifetime |
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Edition |
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5/6 |
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Misc. |
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Signed, Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's London: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
[Lot 25]
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Marlborough Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners in July 1971
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Literature |
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W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, p. 229 (another cast illustrated pls. 172-174).
I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968 (another cast illustrated pls. 83-84).
J. Hedgecoe (ed.) & H. Moore, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 529 (another cast illustrated pp. 294-295, 330-331 and 358-359).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, nos. 563, 565-568 (another cast illustrated).
G. Shakerley, S. Spender & H. Moore, Henry Moore: Sculptures in Landscape, London, 1978 (another cast illustrated pp. 21-22).
D. Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture, London, 1981, pp. 144-145 (another cast illustrated).
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and drawings, Volume 3, Sculpture 1955-64, London, 1986, no. 431, pp. 26-27 (other casts illustrated pls. 50b, 60-62).
J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, 1986, pp. 114-116 (another cast illustrated).
R. Berthoud, The Life of Henry Moore, London, 1987 (another cast illustrated, in photograph with the artist, fig. 119).
A.G. Wilkinson, Henry Moore Remembered, Toronto, 1987, p. 129 (plaster version illustrated).
H. Moore & J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: My Ideas, Inspiration and Life as an Artist, London, 1986 (another cast illustrated, in photograph with the artist, pp. 114-115)
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