A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Henry Moore

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