Property from A MIDWESTERN ESTATE
Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Time-Life Screen -- Maquette No. 4

bronze with green patina
Height: 7in. (17.8cm.)
Length: 12¾in. (32.3cm.)

Plaster version executed in 1952; this bronze version cast before 1962 in an edition of nine
Provenance
Brook Street Gallery Ltd., London (1962)
Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago (acquired by the late owner)
Literature
ed. A. Bowness, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1965, vol. 2 (1949-54), no. 342 (plaster version illustrated,
pl. 67)
J. Hedgecoe and H. Moore, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 214 (another cast illustrated)
Exhibited
Chicago, The School of Social Administration Building, Chicago's Hommage to Henry Moore, Dec., 1967, no. 14

Lot Essay

Moore was already working on his Draped Reclining Figure (ed. A. Bowness, op. cit., no. 336) for the Time-Life Building on New Bond Street in London when architect Michael Rosenauer suggested that the sculptor also design a screening wall for the terrace at the Bond Street entrance.

With the perspective sketch of the building beside me I
made four maquettes and my aim was to give a rhythm to
the spacing and sizes of the sculptural motives which should
be in harmony with the architecture, I rejected the idea of
a portrayal of some pictorial scene, for that would only be
like hanging up a stone picture, like using the position only
as a hoarding for sticking on a stone poster. (Henry Moore, in ed. A. Bowness, op. cit., p. xv)

The present sculpture is the fourth and definitive maquette. Moore did much of the work on the 10 x 26 feet screen outdoors at his studio in Much Hadham. It was carved in Portland stone and completed in 1953.