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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1957

Henry Moore

Reclining Figure, 1957
Bronze
Length: 29 3/4 in, 75.6 cm
Conceived in 1957 and cast between 1957 - 1959 by the Art Bronze Foundry, Gaskin's in an edition of 12 plus 1 AC
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Provenance

Galerie des Arts Anciens et Modernes, Zurich

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (half-share acquired from the above in January 1960)

Roger Kellogg-Stillson, New York (acquired from the above on 1 March 1960)

Private Collection, New York

Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 88 (consigned by the above)

Weintraub Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1998, lot 333 (consigned by the above)

Sydell Miller (acquired from the above) 

Literature

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawing, Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1965, no. 413, p. 24, pls. 38a-38b, illus. of another cast

Herbert Read, Henry Moore, A Study of His Life and Work, London, 1965, p. 141, pl. 196, illus. of another cast

Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, no. 407, p. 82

Henry Moore and John Hedgecoe, eds., Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 151, fig. 5, illus. of another cast; p. 527

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1970, pp. 338 and 360, pls. 541 and 544, illus. of another cast; pl. XXIII, illus. of another cast (with incorrect dimensions)

Giulio Carlo Argan, Henry Moore, New York, 1972, nos. 139 and 140, illus. of another cast

David Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, with Comments by the Artist, London, 1981, no. 294, p. 141, illus. of another cast; p. 312

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawing, Sculpture 1955-64, vol. 3, London, 1986, no. 413, p. 30, illus. of another cast; p. 31, pls. 40-41, illus. of another cast

Henry Moore Foundation, ed., Henry Moore: Catalogue Raisonné, no. LH 413, https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/25270/reclining-figure


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

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