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Property from a Private Collection

Henry Moore

Mother with Child on Knee

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Mother with Child on Knee

bronze

length: 6¾ in.

17.1 cm.

Conceived in 1956 and cast by Gaskin Foundry in an edition of 11 plus 1 artist’s proof.


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

Sidney E. Cohn, New York
Sotheby’s, New York, 13 May 1992, lot 21 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, New York 1971, no. 514, illustration of another cast (titled Mother and Child No. 4)
David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, New York 1981, no. 281, p. 140, illustration of another cast
Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1955-64, vol. 3, London 1986, no. 409, p. 28, pls. 34-35, illustration of another cast