A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
Reclining Mother and Child
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore
(1898 - 1986)
Reclining Mother and Child
inscribed Moore, numbered 3/7, and stamped with the foundry mark HERMANN NOACK; inscribed and numbered again and stamped with the foundry mark H. Noack Berlin (on the base)
bronze
length: 83 ⅞ in.
213 cm.
Conceived and cast in 1975-76 in an edition of 7 plus 1 artist's proof by Bildgiesserei Hermann Noack, Berlin.
Private Collection, Switzerland
Peter Marino International, East Hampton
Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner
Giulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, Milan, 1971, nos. 151-52, n.p., illustrations in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Palacio Velázquez and Palacio De Cristal, Parque de El Retiro, Henry Moore: Sculptures, Drawings, Graphics, 1921-1981, 1981, no. 159, pls. 539-42, pp. 258-59, illustrations in color of another cast; p. XL
David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, with comments by the artist, Barcelona, 1981, pls. 539-42, p. 314 and pp. 258-59, illustrations in color of another cast
Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings; Sculpture 1974-80, vol. 5, London, 1983, no. 649, p. 19, illustration of another cast; pls. 14-19, illustrations of another cast
Exh. Cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Fukuoka Art Museum, The Art of Henry Moore: Sculptures drawings and graphics 1921 to 1984, 1986, no. 34, pp. 62 and 210, illustrations of another cast
Exh. Cat., New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Henry Moore: Sculptures, drawings and graphics 1922 to 1984, 1987, no. 139, n.p., illustrations in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University; College Park, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (and traveling), Mother and Child: The Art of Henry Moore, 1987-88, no. 17, p. 138; p. 38, illustration of another cast (catalogued as LH 648 and dated 1974)
Exh. Cat., Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Henry Moore, 1989, pp. 252-53, illustrations of another cast
Exh. Cat., Milan, Castello Sforzesco, Henry Moore al Castello Sforzesco, 1989, p. 132; pl. 79, illustration of another cast
David Mitchinson and Julian Stallabrass, Henry Moore, Barcelona, 1992, pls. 151-52, illustrations in color of another cast
David Cohen, Moore in the Bagatelle Gardens, Paris, Woodstock, 1994, no. 22, p. 144; pl. XXI, illustration in color of another cast
Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1916-29, Volume 1, London, 1996, p. 206 (dated 1974)
David Mitchinson, ed., Celebrating Moore: Works from the Henry Moore Foundation, London, 1998, no. 236, pp. 40 and 59; p. 308, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., Dallas Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century, 2001-02, no. 96, p. 242, illustration in color of the plaster; p. 311
Miranda Lash, The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art, London, 2012, pp. 120-21, illustration in color of another cast
Werner Spies, The Eye and the Word: Between Action Painting et Op Art, vol. VIII, New York and Berlin, 2011, p. 149, illustration in color of the plaster
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