HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

细节

HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

Mother and Child

signed and numbered on the back Moore 7/9--bronze with dark brown patina and string
Height: 3 7/8 in. (9.5 cm.)

Original lead and wire version cast in 1938; this bronze version cast in 1985 in an edition of nine plus one artist's proof

来源

Marlborough Fine Art, London

出版

ed. D. Sylvester, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, London, 1957, vol. 1, no. 186 (lead and wire version illustrated, with incorrect dimensions, p. 14.)
R. Melville, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 178 (plaster and twine version illustrated, p. 102)
ed. D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore Sculpture with comments by the artist, London, 1981, no. 135 (plaster and twine version illustrated, p. 79)

拍品专文

"At one period just before the war in 1938, I began the most abstract side of my work--the stringed figures... Undoubtedly the source of my stringed figures was the Science Museum...I was fascinated by the mathematical models I saw there, which had been made to illustrate the difference of the form that is halfway between a square and a circle. It wasn't the scientific study of these models but the ability to look through the strings as with a bird cage and see one form within another which excited me." (D. Mitchinson, op.cit., p. 81)