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Reclining Figure: Festival by 
																	Henry Moore

Henry Moore

( British, 1898 - 1986 )

Reclining Figure: Festival

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LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with dark brown patina

Measurements:

96.26 in. (244.50 cm.) (height)

Edition:

edition of five plus one artist's proof

Exhibited:

New York, Storm King Art Centre, 1983. Philadelphia, College of Art, on extended loan, 1983-1991.

Literature:

W. Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, pp. 44-45 (another cast illustrated). J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, London, 1968, p. 197 (another cast illustrated). R. Melville, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, New York, 1969 (another cast illustrated figs. 415-416). D. Finn, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Environment, London, 1977, pp. 282-287 (another cast illustrated). D. Mitchinson, ed., Henry Moore Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 117 (another cast illustrated pl. 232). A. Bowness, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, vol. 2, 1949-1954, London, 1986, no. 293, p. 32 (another cast illustrated p. 33 & pls. 46-53). A. Wilkinson, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Toronto, 1987, pp. 134-137 (plaster version illustrated). S. Compton, Henry Moore, New York, 1988, p. 230 (another cast illustrated). D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore, Martigny, 1989, no. 3, p. 36 (another cast illustrated).

Provenance:

Private collection, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1953. Mr and Mrs H. Gates Lloyd, Philadelphia; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 35. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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