Bronze with brown patina. With the signature and the stamped number on the rear of the base. From an edition of seven copies (plus one artist copy). Height: 9 cm. Including base: 11,3 x 14 x 11,5 cm.
Cast by Fiorini Ltd., London, in 1974. [CH] The "Working Model for Sheep Piece" (1971), likewise from the Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection, will be called up in our Evening Sale on June 7, 2024. Further works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection will be offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024 and in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - see collection catalog "A Private Collection - Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr".
- In 1969, he made first sketches and the maquette for the large "Sheep Piece" from 1971/72. - Moore created a sculpture of two different parts that touch each other; with the combination of a smaller, passive form and a larger, more active one, he drew on the mother-child theme that is so prevalent in his oeuvre. - From the window of his studio, Moore looked onto a sheep pasture, which inspired him to drawings of sheep that eventually let to the monumental "Sheep Piece". - Another copy of this maquette is at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
The work is documented at the Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, with the number LH 625 (cast 1).
LITERATURE: Alan Bowness, Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings, vol. 4 (1964-1973), London 1977, no. 625 (illu. in black and white, different copy). - - Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 290, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, May 14, 2004, lot 274 (illu.).