Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

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Details

Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Draped seated Figure against curved Wall

bronze with brown patina cast in three pieces
9in. (22.8cm.) high

Conceived in 1956-7 and cast in an edition of twelve

Literature

W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, New York, 1960, p. 176 (the plaster version illustrated)
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, 1955-64, London, 1965, vol. 3, no. 423 (illustrated p. 25, the plaster version illustrated pl. 390)
J. Hedgecoe and H. Moore, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 288 (the plaster version illustrated)
R. Melville, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, New York, 1972, p. 524 (the plaster version illustrated)

Lot Essay

During the 1950s Moore received several important commissions for large sculptures to be placed in architectural settings, most notably the traverine marble Reclining Figure (ibid, no. 416) for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Draped seated Figure against a curved Wall was one of eight projects Moore executed for the commission and was one of several he conceived in which his figure is set against an architectural backdrop of steps or a wall in the early 1950s.

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