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Woman Reading
Details
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Woman Reading
signed 'Moore' (on the base)
bronze with a green and brown patina, on a wooden base
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in terracotta in 1946, and cast in bronze between 1972 and 1977 in an edition of 7, plus an artist's cast.
Woman Reading
signed 'Moore' (on the base)
bronze with a green and brown patina, on a wooden base
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in terracotta in 1946, and cast in bronze between 1972 and 1977 in an edition of 7, plus an artist's cast.
Provenance
with Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, where purchased by a private collector, USA.
with Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, UK.
with Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, New York.
Private collection, UK.
Literature
D. Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1921-48, Vol. 1, London, 1969, p. 16, no. 264, terracotta listed.
Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: War and Utility, Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation, 2001, p. 23, no. 180, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: War and Utility, Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation, 2001, p. 23, no. 180, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore: War and Utility, April 2001 - September 2002, no. 180, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, September 2006, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, September 2006, another cast exhibited.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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