Three Motives Against a Wall No. 1

Details

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Three Motives Against a Wall No. 1
bronze with green and brown patina on a metal-covered wooden base
Height: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
Width: 42½ in. (108 cm.)
Depth: 17 in. (43.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1958; cast circa 1958

Literature

W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, no. 189, (illustration of another cast).
A. Bowness, Henry Moore, Sculpture 1955-64, London, 1965, vol. 3, p. 27, no. 441 (another cast illustrated, pl. 75).
H. Read, Henry Moore, A Study of his Life and Work, London, 1965, p. 219, pl. 203 (another cast illustrated).
I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, pl. 69 (another cast illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1971, no. 572 (another cast illustrated).
G.C. Argan, Henry Moore, New York, 1972, p. 155 (another cast illustrated).
D. Mitchinson and F. Russoli, Henry Moore Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 151 (another cast illustrated, pl. 325).
W. Lieberman, Henry Moore, Sixty Years of his Art, New York, 1983, p. 82 (another cast illustrated).
J.D. Weintraub, Master Sculptors of the XX Century, New York, 1987, no. 62 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

Other casts of this work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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