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Three Motives Against Wall No. 2
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Three Motives Against Wall No. 2
bronze with green patina
Height: 18¼ in. (46.4 cm.)
Length: 42½ in. (108 cm.)
Depth: 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1959
Three Motives Against Wall No. 2
bronze with green patina
Height: 18¼ in. (46.4 cm.)
Length: 42½ in. (108 cm.)
Depth: 15¼ in. (38.7 cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1959
Provenance
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired from the above, November 1961).
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1966.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York (acquired from the above, November 1961).
Gift from the above to the present owner, 1966.
Literature
A. Lerner, ed., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, p. 726, no. 639 (illustrated, p. 439).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1955-64, London, 1986, vol. 3, p. 39, no. 442 (another cast illustrated, p. 38 and pl. 76).
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1955-64, London, 1986, vol. 3, p. 39, no. 442 (another cast illustrated, p. 38 and pl. 76).
Exhibited
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962-January 1963, no. 334.
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition, October 1974-September 1975, p. 726, no. 639 (illustrated, p. 439).
Cambridge, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Henry Moore: Figures and Forms, October-December 1985.
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition, October 1974-September 1975, p. 726, no. 639 (illustrated, p. 439).
Cambridge, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Henry Moore: Figures and Forms, October-December 1985.
Special notice
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Further details
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