HENRY MOORE | RECLINING CONNECTED FORMS

Monumental Item

Auction Closed

June 30, 01:51 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

HENRY MOORE

1898 - 1986

RECLINING CONNECTED FORMS

inscribed with the artist’s name, numbered 2/9 and inscribed with the foundry mark Morris Singer Founders London

bronze

Length: 88 in.

223.5 cm

Conceived in 1969, the present work was cast by 1971 and is from an edition of 9 plus 1 artist’s proof.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1974

Richard Gilbert, Fusion Sculpture, London 1971

“Great to Have a Henry Moore on Campus Again,” Yorkshire Evening Press, September 1973, (another cast illustrated)

David Finn, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Environment, New York 1976, pp. 62-66, illustrated in color, pp. 318-320, illustrated, and pp. 356-359, (another cast illustrated)

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture 1964-73, London 1977, vol. 4, no. 612, pp. 58-59, illustrated, and pp. 150-153, no. 612, (another cast illustrated)

Peter Stern and David Collens, Sculpture at Storm King, New York 1980, p. 32 and pp. 107-108, (another cast illustrated)

David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, New York 1981, pp. 228-229, (another cast illustrated)

Donald Richardson, Introducing Art, London 1984, p. 181, (another cast illustrated)

John Beardsley, A Landscape for Modern Sculpture: Storm King Art Center, New York 1985, p. 19 and 62, (another cast illustrated)

Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore, 1898-1986: Four Monumental Sculptures, 1988, (another cast illustrated)

John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, New York 1998, p. 235, no. 544 (another cast illustrated)

David Mitchinson, ed., Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of The Henry Moore Foundation, London 1998, p. 298, no. 225 (another cast illustrated)