Sale: 461 / Post War I, Dec. 09. 2017 in Munich Lot 843

 

843
Henry Moore
Mother with Child on Back, 1965.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 20,625 / $ 22,275

(incl. surcharge)
Mother with Child on Back. 1965.
Bronze with brown patina.
Moore. Catalogue raisonné, volume 6, no. 540. Verso with the name and the number. From an edition of 9 copies. Height: 16.8 cm (6.6 in). Base: 3,5 x 12,5 x 9 cm ( 1,3 x 4,9 x 3,5 in).
Cast in 1969. [SM].
Very intimate "Mother and Child“ depiction of one of the key motifs in Henry Moore's oeuvre.

PROVENANCE: Arte/Contacto Galerie de Arte, Caracas/ Venezuela (with gallery label on platform).
Marlborough Galleries, New York.
Private collection USA (acquired directly from the aforementioned).

EXHIBITION: Henry Moore, 85th Birthday Exhibition, Stone Carvings, Bronze Sculpture, Drawings. Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1983, no. 46, p. 72.




843
Henry Moore
Mother with Child on Back, 1965.
Bronze
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 20,625 / $ 22,275

(incl. surcharge)