HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
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HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Wall Relief: Maquette No. 6

Details
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Wall Relief: Maquette No. 6
bronze with a dark brown patina, on a slate base
18 in. (45.7 cm.) wide, excluding base
Conceived in 1955 and cast in an edition of 10, plus an artist’s cast.
Cast by Fiorini Foundry, London.
Provenance
with Brook Street Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 1962.
Their sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 March 2011, lot 116, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, p. 356, no. 260.
J. Hedgecoe and H. Moore, Henry Moore, London, 1968, p. 215, no. 9, another cast illustrated.
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 228, no. 493, another cast illustrated.
D. Mitchinson (ed.), Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of The Henry Moore Foundation, London, 1988, p. 259.
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1955-64, Vol. 3, Aldershot, 2005, pp. 18-19, no. 370, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Henry Moore: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1950-1960, November - December 1960, n.p., no. 37, another cast illustrated.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore, March - April 1962, n.p., no. 19, another cast illustrated.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore: 85th Birthday Exhibition, June - August 1983, pp. 12, 48, no. 15, another cast illustrated.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, September 1987 - February 1988, p. 157, no. 102, another cast illustrated.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Henry Moore, September - December 1988, p. 103, pl. 131, another cast illustrated.
London, Gagosian, Henry Moore: Wunderkammer - Origin of Forms, February - April 2015, pp. 31, 83, no. 31, another cast illustrated.
Athens, Gagosian, Henry Moore in Greece, September - October 2024, no catalogue, another cast exhibited.

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