Sale 2313
New York
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5 May 2010
Price realised
USD 30,000
Estimate
Henry Moore (1898-1986) Two Three Quarter Figures on Base signed and numbered 'Moore 7/9' (on the top of the base) bronze with brown patina Height: 7½ in. (19.1 cm.) Conceived in 1965; this bronze version cast in 1969
Provenance
Private collection. Gerald Cramer, Geneva. Galerie Krugier et Cie., New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, May 1971.
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Literature
A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Sculpture and drawings 1964-73, London, 1977, vol. 4, p. 42, no. 539a (another cast illustrated, p. 43).
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