Modern & Post-War British Art

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HENRY MOORE | BIRD

Auction Closed

November 20, 12:36 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

HENRY MOORE

1898-1986

BIRD


signed 

bronze

height (excluding base): 8cm.; 3¼in.; length: 14cm.; 5½in.

Conceived in 1955, the present work is from the edition of 12.

George David Winter, to whom presented in 1966 as The Thomas Henry Huxlet award for original contributions to Zoology

Sale, Phillips London, 22nd June 1993, lot 81A, where acquired by the late owner

Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore Volume 3 Sculpture 1955-64, Lund Humphries, London, 1965, cat. no.393, illustrated p.22 (another cast);

W.J. Strachan, Henry Moore: Animals, Aurum Press Limited, London, 1983, cat. no.21, illustrated p.43 (another cast).

Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Henry Moore, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, 1978, cat. no.29 (another cast).