Property of the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART CORPORATION From the Estate

Property of the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART CORPORATION from the Estate of Nina Bunshaft Sold to Benefit the Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Fund for Acquisitions in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture

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Property of the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART CORPORATION From the Estate
of NINA BUNSHAFT Sold to Benefit the NINA and GORDON BUNSHAFT FUND
for Acquisitions in the Department of Paintings and Sculpture

HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

Three Birds

signed and numbered on the top of the base the 'Moore 1/7'--bronze with green and brown patina
Length: 16 1/8in. (41cm.)
Cast in 1982; number one in an edition of seven

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Nina Bunshaft, 1982

Literature

ed. A. Bowness, Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, London, 1988, vol. 6 (1981-86), no. 853 (another cast illustrated, p. 48)

Further details

*This lot may be exempt from sales tax, as set forth in the Sales Tax Notice at the front of the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Moore depicted a bird form as early as 1927 and returned to the theme many times in later decades. The idea for the present sculpture may derive from Birds: Three Crows, 1951, a pencil drawing in a sketchbook, which shows birds huddled together on a branch.