Maquette for Reclining Figure: Angles

Details

HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Maquette for Reclining Figure: Angles
signed and numbered 'Moore 6⁄9' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
length: 9 1⁄4 in. (23.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1975 and cast in an edition of nine plus one artist's proof

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist on 20 February 1976 by the late owners, and thence by descent.

Literature

G. Levine, With Henry Moore: The Artist at Work, London, 1978 (plaster version illustrated pp. 74-75 & 122; plaster version illustrated again on the cover).
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and drawings, vol. 5, Sculpture 1974-1980, London, 1983, no. 673, p. 25 (another cast illustrated p. 24).

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