HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
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HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

Reclining Figure

Details
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Reclining Figure
signed and numbered 'Moore 1/7' (on the back); stamped with foundry mark 'NOACK BERLIN' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown patina
Length: 7 in. (17.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1937
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York.
Arnold Saltzman, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 5 November 1981, lot 279.
Nathan and Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale); sale, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, 5 November 2001, lot 54.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 75, no. 122 (another cast illustrated).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1980-86, London, 1988, vol. 6, p. 28, no. 183a (another cast illustrated).
J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision, Cologne, 2005, p. 206, no. 184 (another cast illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters from the Smooke Collection, April-June 1987, p. 99 (illustrated).

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