HENRY MOORE O.M., C.H. (BRITISH 1898-1986) §
STUDY FOR HEAD OF QUEEN NO. 2
£125,200
Auction: Modern Made Day 2 - Lots 124 to 456 - Friday 02 May at 10:30
Description
signed Moore and numbered 7/9, bronze with green/brown patina
Dimensions
the bronze: 23.5cm high (9 ¼in high); overall: 29cm high (11 3/8in high)
Provenance
Phillips, London, 20th Century British & Irish Art, 21 November 2000, lot 66, where acquired by the present owner.
Footnote
Conceived in 1952 and cast in an edition of 9 plus 1 artist's proof in 1972.
Literature:
Hedgecoe, John (ed.), Henry Spencer Moore, Nelson, London: Simon and Schuster, New York 1968, p.221
Levine, Gemma & David Mitchinson, With Henry Moore, The Artist at Work, New York, 1978, illustration of the plaster version p. 59
Bowness, Alan (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, 1949-54, vol. 2, London, 1986, no. 349b, illustration of another cast p. 49
Hedgecoe, John, Henry Moore, A Monumental Vision, Cologne, 2005, no. 324, illustration of another cast p. 217.