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Slow Form: Tortoise
Details
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Slow Form: Tortoise
signed and numbered 'Moore 7/9' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 7 ½ in. (19 cm.)
Conceived in 1962
Slow Form: Tortoise
signed and numbered 'Moore 7/9' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Length: 7 ½ in. (19 cm.)
Conceived in 1962
Provenance
The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown and Phillips, Ltd.), London.
Jascha Brojdo (Georges Briard), New York (acquired from the above, 1964); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 3 May 2006, lot 433.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Jascha Brojdo (Georges Briard), New York (acquired from the above, 1964); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 3 May 2006, lot 433.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 641 (another cast illustrated; titled Maquette for Slow Form: Tortoise).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1955-1964, London, 1986, vol. 3, p. 54, no. 502 (another cast illustrated, p. 55).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1955-1964, London, 1986, vol. 3, p. 54, no. 502 (another cast illustrated, p. 55).
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