Reclining figure: Wedge base

Details

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Reclining figure: Wedge base
signed and numbered 'Moore 2/7', stamped with the signature and maker's mark 'Hans Hansen Denmark' and with the hallmark '925 S' (underneath the figure)
sterling silver figure on a carved stone base
Length: 6 1/8 (15.6 cm.) including base
Conceived in 1977 and cast in 1981 by Karl Gustav Hansen, silversmith, in an edition of seven

Provenance

Bo Boustedt, Stockholm; his collection sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1988, lot 374.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and drawings, vol. 5, Sculpture 1974-1980, London, 1983, no. 732, p. 36 (one of the casts from the bronze edition illustrated).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

This sculpture is one of a few silver casts of works by Moore that were made by Hans Hansen, Kolding, Denmark. Hans Hansen also made silver editions of two other works by Moore, Seated Figure: Thin Head, 1980 (Bowness 917), and Butterfly, 1981 (Bowness 702). Bronze editions of all three sculptures also exist.

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