Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture 1964-73, Vol 4. London, 1977, no. 602, illustrations of another cast pp. 57 & 130-33
David Michinson, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture with Comments by the Artist, London, 1981, nos. 451 & 452, illustrations of another cast p. 214

Variegated light brown and dark brown patina. There is light rubbing to the edges of the form. There are some very minor scuffs to two of the curved edges. Additional rubbing and variegation to the patina to the right side of the front of the form as seen in the catalogue illustration. Light surface dirt in the deeper crevices. Largely very good condition.
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In the late 1960s, Moore worked with a range of abstract forms that made no direct reference to the human body. While the basic shape of the present work may derive from a reclining human figure, Moore has pushed the shapes beyond human reference toward a more imposing sense of space, as the title suggests. Moore explained, "For me, a work must first have a vitality of its own. I do not mean a reflection of the vitality of life, of movement, physical action, frisking, dancing figures and so on, but that a work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent" (quoted in Henry Moore, Carvings, Bronzes 1961-1970 (exhibition catalogue), M. Knoedler & Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1970, p. 77).