Modern & Post-War British Art

Henry Moore

MAQUETTE FOR OVAL WITH POINTS

Artist's Resale RightVAT reduced rate

Lot Closed

November 17, 02:10 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

HENRY MOORE

1898 - 1986

MAQUETTE FOR OVAL WITH POINTS

signed Moore (to the lower edge); also signed Moore and stamped with numbering 3/9 (on the base)

bronze

height (excluding base): 13.5cm.; 5¼in.; height (including base): 16cm.; 6¼in.

width: 11cm.; 4½in.

Conceived in 1968 and cast by 1969, the present work is number 3 from the edition of 9.

Jeffrey H. Loria, New York, where acquired by Carl Erpf in December 1969 and thence by family descent to Joan E. Uris (née Erpf)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986

Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture 1964-73, Lund Humphries, London, 1977, Vol. 4, no. 594, illustrated p. 55 (another cast)

William S. Lieberman, Henry Moore: 60 Years of His Art, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1983, illustrated n.p. (another cast)