Henry Moore

Reclining Figure: Umbilicus

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Reclining Figure: Umbilicus

inscribed Moore and numbered 5/9 (on the base)

bronze

length: 37 ¼ in.

94.7 cm.

Conceived in 1984 and cast by Fiorini Ltd, London in an edition of nine plus one artist’s proof.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1980-86, vol. 6, London, 1988, no. 907, pls. 124-25, pp. 58-59, illustrations of another cast

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, 1980-86, vol. 6, London, 1999, no. 907, pls. 133-34, pp. 60-61, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., Moscow Kremlin Museums, Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture, 2012, no. 58, p. 187, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Landerneau, Fonds Hélène and Édouard Leclerc, Henry Moore, 2018, n.n., p. 9, illustration of the plaster in the artist's studio in color

Exh. Cat., Orońsko, The Centre of Polish Sculpture; National Museum in Wrocław and National Museum in Krakow, Power of Nature: Henry Moore in Poland, 2018-19, n.n., pp. 56-57, illustration in color of another cast