LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with a brown patina

Measurements:

90.55 in. (230.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

Ed of 5 + 1 AP

Exhibited:

London, South Bank, Festival of Britain , Summer 1951, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited. Bochum, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Profile III Englische Kunst der Gegenwart , April - June 1964, no. 106, another cast exhibited, n.p., another cast illustrated. Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore and Landscape , May - August 1987, no. 4, another cast exhibited, p. 15, another cast illustrated. London, Royal Festival Hall, Symbols for '51 , March - April 1996, another cast exhibited. Dallas, Museum of Art, Henry Moore Sculpting the 20th Century, February - May 2001, no. 55, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, June - September 2001; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, October 2001 - January 2002, pp. 191, 278-279, 310, no. 55, another cast illustrated. London, Royal Academy, Modern British Sculpture, January - April 2011, no. 148, another cast exhibited, pp. 148-149, another cast illustrated

Literature:

E. Neuman, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore , London, 1959, pp. xiii, 108-109, figs. 76, 77, another cast illustrated. W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore , London, 1960, pp. 6, 75-76, pls. 44-45, another cast illustrated. J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore , London, 1968, pp. 189-196, another cast illustrated. D. Finn, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Environment , London, 1977, pp. 282-287, another cast illustrated. D. Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore Sculpture , London, 1981, p. 117, pl. 232, another cast illustrated. A. Bowness, (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, Vol. 2, 1949-1954, London, 1986, pp. 32, 33, no. 293, pls. 46-53, another cast illustrated. R. Rosenblum, 'British Twentieth Century Art: A Transatlantic View', in exhibition catalogue, British Art in the Twentieth Century , London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, p. 89, fig. 1, another cast illustrated. R. Berthoud, The Life of Henry Moore , London, 1987, pp. 232-233, 328-329, 418-419, fig. 104, another cast illustrated. A. Wilkinson, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto , Toronto, 1987, no. 85a, pp. 135-137, plaster illustrated. S. Compton, exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, Royal Academy, London, 1988, pp. 20-21, 219, 230, 258, 260, another cast. D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore, Martigny, 1989, no. 3, p. 36, another cast illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, Ursprung und Vollendung , Mannheim, Städische Kuntshalle, 1996, p. 118, fig. 19, another cast illustrated. D. Mitchinson, Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation , London, 1998, pp. 40, 151, 242, 278, another cast. H. Moore and J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, My Ideas, Inspiration and Life as an Artist , London, 1999, pp. 80-81, 84-85, another cast illustrated

Provenance:

Purchased directly from the artist by Laing Galleries, Toronto. Dr. Ben Raxlen, Toronto. His sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 April 1968, lot 141, where purchased by the present owners