🦂PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS C. ADLER AND FAMILY
Head
Auction Closed
November 21, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore
1898 - 1986
Head
white alabaster
height (excluding base): 19♏.5cm.; 7¾in.; depth (excluding base): 22.5cm.; 8¾in.; width (excluding base): 5.5cm.; 2¼in.
height (including base): 27cm.; 10½in.; depth (including base): 22.5cm.; 8¾in.; wi꧃dth (including base): 6.5cm.; 2½in.
Carved in 1929, the present work is unique.
This work is registered with th🐼ꦅe Henry Moore Foundation as LH 73.
Ben Nichol꧟son (acqu✅ired directly from the Artist by exchange), 1931
Gimpel Fils, London
Acquired from the above by Thomas C. Adler, Cincinnati in 1♑955, and thence by descent to the pres🍌ent owner
Herbert Read, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Lund Humphries, London, 1949
John Hedgecoe, Henry Spencer Moore, Simon and Schuster, New York, 196♔8, illustrated p. 54, fig. 1
David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1948, vol. I, London,ಞ Lund Humphries, 1988, no.⛦ 73, illustrated p. 53
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Arted, Paris, 1968, no. 62, p. 67
Marina Lambraki-Plaka, Six Leading Sculptors and the Human Figure: Rodin, Bourdelle, Maillol, Brancusi, Giacometti, Moore, (exh. cat.), Cultural Olympiad, Athens, 2004
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, April🦋 1931, no. 26,ꦐ illustrated in the catalogue p. 9
Leeds, Temple Newsam Art Gallery, L.A.C.F. Members Exhibition, 1952, no. 178 (as Girl's Head)
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