Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired directly from the artist)
Weintraub Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1964-73, London, 1991, vol. IV, no. 524, illustration of another cast p. 39
David Finn, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Environment, London, 1977, illustration of the larger cast, p. 449
Henry Moore, Intime, (exhibition catalogue), Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris, 1992, illustration of the plaster in colour on the cover

Attractive dark polished bronze and dark brown patina. Apart from some minor wear, consistent with age, this work is in very good condition.
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In 1964 Professor McNeill and his colleagues from the University of Chicago asked Henry Moore if he would execute a sculpture on the campus to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, acheived in a laboratory at the university on 2nd December 1942. The present work is a maquette of the larger cast🍒 installed in Chicago.

Fig. 1, Henry Moore working on the plaster of the present work