Seated Woman: Shell Skirt

Details

HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Seated Woman: Shell Skirt
signed and numbered 'Moore 3⁄12' (at the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina, on a marble base
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1960 and cast by Hermann Noack, Berlin.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld, Bavaria, and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

H. Read, Henry Moore: A Study of His Life and Work, London, 1965, p. 238, pl. 228, another cast illustrated.
I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, p. 84, no. 444, pl. 56, another cast illustrated.
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 362, no. 593, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: 85th Birthday Exhibition, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1983, p. 74, no. 40, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1955-64, London, 1986, p. 28, no. 459, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Insights: Piepenbrock Private Collection, Berlin, Berlinsche Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, 2007, pp. 122-123, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore: 85th Birthday Exhibition, June - August 1983, no. 40, another cast exhibited.
Berlin, Berlinsche Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Insights: Piepenbrock Private Collection, March - August 2007, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

Moore gifted the present work to Hans-Heinrich Hewarth von Bittenfeld, an esteemed German diplomat who was patriotic and strongly opposed the Nazi regime. Hewarth von Bittenfeld passed information to the Allies in the lead-up to and during the Second World War, and from 1955 was the first post-war German ambassador in London.

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