Lot 141
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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Standing Mother and Child: Holes

Details
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Standing Mother and Child: Holes
bronze with a green/brown patina
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high, excluding wooden base
Conceived in 1953 and cast in an edition of 10.
Provenance
Max Granick, New York.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York.
with The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture: 1964-73, Vol. 4, London, 1977, p. 31, no. 400a, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Henry Moore: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection, July - September 1978, no. 32.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

'The 'Mother and Child' idea is one of my two or three obsessions, one of my inexhaustible subjects. This may have something to do with the fact that the 'Madonna and Child' was so important in the art of the past and that one loves the old masters and has learned so much from them. But the subject itself is eternal and unending, with so many sculptural possibilities in it - a small form in relation to a big form, the big form protecting the small one, and so on. It is such a rich subject, both humanly and compositionally, that I will always go on using it' (Moore quoted in A. Wilkinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations, Berkeley, 2002, p. 213).

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