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Auction Closed

November 26, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Animal Form


signed Moore (on the bronze base)

bronze

height (not including base): 34cm.; 14in.

Conceived in 1959 and cast for the Zoological Society of London in an edition of 8.

Dr. Ernest Neal MBE, United Kingdom, and thence by descent to a Private Collection

Their sale, Christie’s London, 8 February 2012, lot 443, where acquired by the previous owner

Their sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, 13 November 2018, lot 394, where acquired by the present owner

Robert Melville, Henry Moore, Sculptures and Drawings 1921-1969, Thames and Hudson, London, 1970, pl. 574, illustrated p. 360 (another cast)

Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, Sculpture and Drawings 1955-1964, vol. 3, London, 1986, no. 443, illustrated p.p. 49, 37 & pl. 77 (another cast)