A plane interposed through the middle shows the form that is halfway between a square and a circle ₃Over a three-year period, between 1937 and 1939, Moore created around fifty sculptures in which space is modified by taut threads. Collection of the artist. Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour, pen & ink on paper 20.2 x 16.5 cm. Total Sold Value $87,468,580 Once finished, however, he regarded Reclining Figure: Holes (1976–78) as ‘having something special and different from the others’.1.

Thence by descent, The Henry Moore Foundation has suggested a date of 1948 for the drawing and that it originally was part of the 1947-49 sketchbook, Three Female Figures, 1949 In 1946 Moore was given his first overseas retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. $561,161 - 726,379

Portland, Oregon, USA Bernard Meadows, who was Moore’s assistant at the time, recalled that some casts were roughly finished, and required considerable refinement before returning to the foundry for patination. 328, pp. ), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture: 1980-86, Vol. Signed lower right, Gifted by the artist to his nephew as a wedding present (Albert Spencer Speight) Fascinatingly, this search folds in on itself in the sculptor’s own practice, as he himself breathes life into his models. The compositions varied between one- and two-children families, with the children (of different ages) seated or standing. In modelling Reclining Figure Henry Moore has encapsulated many of the most important motifs of his definitive aesthetic style. Private collection, USA, John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, London, 1998, p. 110 38, Mother and Child: Circular Base, 1980

), Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations (Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2002), p. 305. Biro and crayon 25.5 x 17.5 cm. - Feb 21,2021, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Washington D.C. | District Of Columbia | USA The distinction between the ‘mother and child’ and ‘Madonna and Child’ is significant. Henry Moore was the foremost British sculptor of the 20th century. Moore’s maquette was enlarged in 1983, gaining in stylization if perhaps losing the immediacy of this diminutive version. The female figure is often swathed in a shawl or dress, and sometimes a blanket is draped, tenderly, over both figures’ knees. Signed ‘ Moore.’, lower right and inscribed ‘ Seated figure.’ center left; Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (by 1955). Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, crayon on cream medium weight wove 27.5 x 18.8 cm.

Coloured crayon, ink and pencil on paper The energetic application of layers of mixed media echoes the bony, taut surfaces of the sculptures. ₅ Geoffrey Grigson, Henry Moore, The Penguin Modern Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Limited, 1943). Pencil 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Baby’s Head, 1926, Henry Moore: Henry Moore Art For Sale - 13 Listings. Following the charity’s foundation in 1952, Guthrie inaugurated a series of Christmas seals as a fundraiser and invited Henry Moore to provide a design, which forms the present work. By descent.

A child scrambles over its mother’s reclining figure, or balances on her knees, arms reaching towards her breast.

The recent, spectacular exhibition of Moore’s Helmet Heads at the Wallace Collection in 2019 demonstrates their enduring fascination. Estimate £400,000 - 600,000 . Eighteen Ideas for Sculpture, 1939, Henry Moore: Brook Street Gallery, London The Graphic Work, 1931-72, vol. Moore has been acknowledged as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century and as the most celebrated British artist of his time. Est. The angularity of the limbs emphasises the contrast between the movement of the child and the stability of the mother, between creator and progeny. Fourteen Ideas for Sculpture, 1939, Henry Moore: Jeffrey Loria, New York ₄ David Sylvester, ‘The Evolution of Henry Moore’s Sculpture: II’, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. Jeffrey Loria, New York 723, p. 34-35 & pls. ”. After nine months’ work, however, the project foundered, partly through lack of money, and partly due to the Education Authority’s lack of enthusiasm for Moore’s maquettes. Four Mother and Child Studies, 1976, Henry Moore: Signed £3,500 (exclusive of taxes), Four Mother and Child Studies, 1976 Working Model for Three Piece No. The most significant expression comes in the 1943 commission for a Madonna and Child for the church of St Matthew, Northampton, although the specifically religious context seems a little incongruous in view of the universality of the theme. By this repeated engagement with the theme each new iteration brought new discoveries, building to an extraordinarily fertile period in the 1970s.
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Drapery can also, by its direction over the form, make more obvious the section, that is, show shape. It fits in with my belief that sculpture should be permanent, should last for eternity. Browse Listings Browse Listings.
Wash, pencil, wax resist & ink on paper 38.4 x 29.2 cm.

Pencil, crayon, ink & gouache on paper 29.01 x 23.5 cm. Waddington Galleries, London, 1992, No.14, (another cast). He was given his first one-man show in 1928 by the Warren Gallery and in the same year he gained his first public commission – to carve a relief in stone for a façade of the new Underground Building, London. Total Sold Value $340,851,500 Edition of 9, Alan Bowness (ed. This email address is being protected from spambots. Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore Complete Sculpture 1980-1986, vol. Unsigned, undated, Mr & Mrs Rowland Howarth Bronze 12.5 x 24.2 x 10.5 cm. ₅, In the two sets of drawings presented here, originally part of a single sheet, stringed figures predominate: proliferating and mutating serially across the paper, to suggest bones or stones, worn into strange cavities and curvatures. Three Female Figures, 1949, Henry Moore: In Maquette for Curved Mother and Child, however, the arc is present in every aspect of its composition: from the mother’s neck to her spine and legs – even the child’s loose-limbed body – each element twisting in a slightly different direction. ₃ Moore, in Moore and Hedgecoe, Henry Spencer Moore, p. 105. 2005 (consigned from the above) To the left, a woman holds a child, to the right, a man places one hand protectively on the woman’s shoulder, while his other hand holds a book. Early intimations of Moore’s Helmet series appear in his drawings in the mid-1930s. ₃ Ibid. Etching and Aquatint 32.9 x 24.5 cm. A. Bowness (ed. Moore (1983), in Alan Wilkinson (ed.