Henry Moore

Dominion Gallery, Montreal
Private Collection, Ottawa
Kaspar Gallery, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998

John Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, London, 1968, illustration of another cast p. 214
Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1949-1954, vol. 2, London, 1986, no. 341, p. XXVIII, illustration of the plaster pl. 66

The work is bronze with light brown patina. There is verdigris throughout. There are a few areas of rubbing at extremities from handling. There are a few small nicks to the top, and a small area of patina loss to the bottom front edge, about 2 mm long. The work presents well and is in generally good condition.
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"The four maquettes for the Time-Life building in Bond Street. First I tried to relate the openings to the fenestration of the building. This, I thought, was too obvious. Next I made more asymmetrical spaces and varied the size of each unit. But this had a rhythm too vertical for the squareness of the building. Then came the third, in which I used both horizontal and vertical forms and openings. Still I was dissatisfied. I made a fourth attempt which combined the horizontal and vertical forms into more squareness. I preferred this last maquette, and so carried it out in full size."

(The Artist, quoted in John Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, London, 1968, p. 214.)