A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Henry Moore

Mother and Child with Apple

Auction Closed

November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

(1898 - 1986)


Mother and Child with Apple

bronze

height: 29 ¼ in.  

74.5 cm.

Conceived in 1956 and cast in an edition of 10 plus 1 artist's proof by the Art Bronze Foundry (Gaskin’s), London circa 1956-57.

Private Collection

Jory and Joseph Randall Shapiro, Oak Park (acquired by 1967)

Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 1989, lot 49 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Miami (acquired at the above sale)

Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner


Caroline Burke, “A Call on Henry Moore,” The Diplomat, October 1957, p. 26; p. 27, illustration of another cast and illustration of another cast (in a photograph of the artist’s studio)

Exh. Cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Henry Moore, Sculpture 1950-1960, 1960, pl. 45, illustration of another cast (titled Mother and Child Reaching for Apple)

Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, New York, 1960, pp. 8 and 143; pls. 116-17, illustrations of another cast

“Sam Zacks,” Canadian Art, vol. 17, January 1960, p. 256, illustration of another cast (with incorrect dimensions)

Anthony Gishford, ed., Tribute to Benjamin Britten on his Fiftieth Birthday, London, 1963, n.p., illustrations of another cast (titled Mother and Child)

John Hedgecoe, Henry Spencer Moore, New York, 1968, p. 266, illustration of another cast (in a photograph of the artist’s studio)

Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, no. 389, p. 81 (titled Mother and Child No. 1)

Reid Hastie and Christian Schmidt, Encounter with Art, New York, 1969, fig. 10-3, p. 321, illustration of another cast

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1971, nos. 512-13, pp. 234-35, illustrations of another cast; p. 359 (titled Mother and Child No. 1: Reaching for Apple)

Gulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, New York, 1971, pl. 132, illustrations of another cast (detail); pl. 133, illustration in color of another cast (titled Mother and Child)

David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, with Comments by the Artist, New York, 1981, nos. 290-91, p. 141, illustrations of another cast; p. 312

William S. Lieberman, Henry Moore: 60 Years of His Art, New York, 1983, p. 124 (titled Mother and Child with Apple, no. 1)

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1986, no. 406, pl. 6, illustration of another cast; p. 23 (titled Mother and Child No. 1: Reaching for Apple)

Angela Dyer, ed., Henry Moore: Mother and Child Etchings, Much Hadham, 1988, p. 16, illustration of another cast (detail)

Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Henry Moore: rétrospective, 2002, no. 136, p. 167, illustration in color of another cast; p. 249

David Mitchinson, ed., Hoglands: The Home of Henry and Irina Moore, Aldershot, 2007, fig. 127, pp. 110-11, illustration in color of another cast (in a photograph of the artist’s studio)

Christa Lichtenstein, Henry Moore: Work, Theory, Impact, London, 2008, illustration of another cast (on the cover; in a photograph of the artist’s studio)

Exhibited

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago’s Homage to Henry Moore, 1967, no. 34 (titled Seated Mother and Child (reaching for apple))

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 1969-70, no. 159, illustrated in color (titled Mother and Child)

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, 1985, no. 126, fig. 94, p. 93, illustrated in color; pp. 21 and 111 (titled Mother and Child No. I: Reaching for Apple)