Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.

Acquired from the artist by Mr Gimpel, UK in 1957
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
Galerie Reckermann, Cologne
The Sammlung Best Collection, Cologne

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Fifteen British Artists: Works of the Fifties, 1988;
London, Chapman Gallery, 1988;
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Sculptures, Reliefs, Drawings, 1989, cat. no.34;
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Heads, 1991;
Cologne, Galerie Reckermann, Der Rote Faden, 1997-98.

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, no.478, p.223, London, 1970;
Giulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, no.117, New York, 1971;
Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, 1949-54, Lund Humphries, London, 1986, vol.2, LH359, p.53, illustrated and pl.135 (another cast).

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Executed in 1953. Cast in bronze by The Art Bronze Foundry, London in an unnumbered edition of 8 plus one artist's proof.