Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Henry Moore
Reclining Figure: Bone Skirt
Auction Closed
November 22, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Reclining Figure: Bone Skirt
signed Moore and numbered 3/9 (on the base)
bronze
overall (including integral bronze base): 21 by 63.5 by 53cm.; 8¼ by 25 by 21in.
Conceived and cast in 1977, the present work is number 3 from the edition of 9 plus 1 Artist's Cast.
This work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as LH 722.
Acquired directly from the Artist by a Private Collection, November 1977
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in April 1978
Sale, Sotheby's New York, 2 October 2020, lot 23, where acquired by the present owner
Alan Bowness, (Ed.), Henry Moore Complete Sculpture, 1955-1964, vol. 5, London 1986, no. 722, illustrated p. 34 (another cast)
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