Reclining Figure: Goujon

Details

HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Reclining Figure: Goujon
signed and numbered 'Moore/ 5/9' (on the back of the base)
bronze with a green and brown patina, on a slate base
9 1/2 in. (24 cm.) long, excluding base
Conceived in 1956 and cast in 1971.

Provenance

with Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence, 1972, where purchased by a private collector, and by descent.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2014, lot 201.
with Richard Green, London, where purchased by the present owner in January 2015.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, London, Lefevre Gallery, 1972, p. 61, no. 27, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1964-73, Vol. 4, London, 1977, p. 32, no. 411a, another cast illustrated.
D. Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 140, no. 284, another cast illustrated.
A.G. Wilkinson, exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987, p. 170, no. 120.
A. Elliot and D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore: The Human Dimension, London, 1991, p. 102, no. 77, another cast illustrated.
J. Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, London, 1998, p. 222, no. 379, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Retrospective, Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, 2002, pp. 166, 249, no. 137, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Lefevre Gallery, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, November - December 1972, no. 27, another cast exhibited.
Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, September 1987 - February 1988, no. 120, another cast exhibited.
Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Henry Moore: Rétrospective, July - November 2002, no. 137, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

Alan Wilkinson explains the origin of the title of the current work, ‘This was Moore’s first sculpture in which the name of another artist is included in the title. … In almost all Moore’s work, the titles were usually assigned after the sculpture was completed. It is less likely that a particular sculpture by the sixteenth-century French sculptor Jean Goujon (1540-62) inspired this reclining figure than that, when the work was finished, Moore saw in the thin, elongated limbs of this elegant little bronze similarities to Goujon’s work’ (A.G. Wilkinson, loc. cit.).

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