HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

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Lot 6 | HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
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£ 700 000 – 1 000 000
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Rocking Chair No. 3
bronze with a dark brown and green patina
12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) high
Conceived in 1950 and cast in an edition of 6, plus an artist's cast.
Cast circa 1950 by Valsuani Foundry, Paris.




Provenance

with M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Payson family, New York.
with Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., New York, where purchased by the present owner in February 1997.



Literature

J.P. Hodin, Moore, London, 1958, n.p., pl. 18, another cast illustrated.
B. Robertson (intro.), exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: Sculpture 1950-1960, London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1960, n.p., another cast illustrated.
I. Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, p. 76, no. 260.
J. Hedgecoe and H. Moore, Henry Moore, London, 1968, p. 178.
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 354, no. 400, another cast illustrated.
D. Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 105, no. 201, another cast illustrated.
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1949-54, Vol. 2, London, 1986, n.p., no. 276, pl. 16, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Leicester Galleries, Henry Moore Exhibition: New Bronzes and Drawings, 1951, no. 3, another cast exhibited.
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society: Pictures, Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, no. 22, another cast exhibited, as 'Woman and Child in Rocking-Chair'.
Brighton, Art Gallery, The Wilfred Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, no. 115, another cast exhibited, as 'Mother and Child on a Rocking Chair'.
London, Royal Academy, Henry Moore, September - December 1988, pp. 89, 225, no. 110, another cast illustrated.
London, Tate Britain, Henry Moore, February - August 2010, pp. 186, 214, no. 126, another cast illustrated: this exhibition travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, October 2010 - February 2011; and Leeds, City Art Gallery, March - June 2011.
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