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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Reclining Figure: Blanket
Details
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Reclining Figure: Blanket
bronze with brown patina
Length (including base): 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
Height (including base): 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1939
Reclining Figure: Blanket
bronze with brown patina
Length (including base): 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.)
Height (including base): 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1939
Provenance
Irina Moore, Much Hadham (wife of the artist).
Mary Moore, Much Hadham (by descent from the above, 1989); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 320.
Mary Moore, Much Hadham (by descent from the above, 1989); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 1997, lot 320.
Literature
W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, p. 6, no. 32 (another cast illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 214 (another cast illustrated; with incorrect edition size).
D. Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 310, no. 149 (lead version illustrated, pl. 86).
D. Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1921-48, London, 1988, vol. I, p. 12, no. 203 (lead version illustrated, p. 115).
J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision, Cologne, 2005, p. 208, no. 210 (another cast illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 214 (another cast illustrated; with incorrect edition size).
D. Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 310, no. 149 (lead version illustrated, pl. 86).
D. Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1921-48, London, 1988, vol. I, p. 12, no. 203 (lead version illustrated, p. 115).
J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: A Monumental Vision, Cologne, 2005, p. 208, no. 210 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Staatliche Kunsthalle-Baden and Nürnberg, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Henry Moore, May 1968-March 1969, no. 50 (illustrated).
The Kamakura Museum of Modern Art and Hyogo, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore, May-July 1974, no. 16 (illustrated).
Madrid, Palacio de Velasquez; Madrid, Palacio de Cristal; Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Barcelona, Miro Foundation, Henry Moore, May-August 1981, no. 149, p. 26, no. 124 (illustrated).
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Fukuoka Art Museum, The Art of Henry Moore: Sculptures, Drawings and Graphics, 1921-1984, April-July 1986, p. 53, no. 17 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Henry Moore—Intime, April-July 1992, p. 77 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and The Oita Prefectural Museum of Art, Moore-Intime, September 1992-August 1993, p. 93, no. Fa-16 (illustrated in color).
The Kamakura Museum of Modern Art and Hyogo, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore, May-July 1974, no. 16 (illustrated).
Madrid, Palacio de Velasquez; Madrid, Palacio de Cristal; Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Barcelona, Miro Foundation, Henry Moore, May-August 1981, no. 149, p. 26, no. 124 (illustrated).
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Fukuoka Art Museum, The Art of Henry Moore: Sculptures, Drawings and Graphics, 1921-1984, April-July 1986, p. 53, no. 17 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Henry Moore—Intime, April-July 1992, p. 77 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and The Oita Prefectural Museum of Art, Moore-Intime, September 1992-August 1993, p. 93, no. Fa-16 (illustrated in color).
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