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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Modern & Post-War British Art: Evening Auction/Day Auction

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Bib. Number0023858

Modern & Post-War British Art: Evening Auction/Day Auction

PublisherSotheby's
Place PublishedLondon
Year
Date & Collation18 & 19 November, 160pp.
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Cover image is Working Model for Mother and Child: Block Seat (LH 837)

Short introductory essay on art in architecture and property from the collection of Eugene and Penelope Rosenberg. Mentions how Eugene Rosenberg was one of the pioneering architects to commission artists such as Moore to create site specific artworks for his firm's architectural designs. Also references the creation of the Barclay School in Stevenage, and Moore's subsequent Family Group, 1948-49 (LH 269) commission for the project. The essay also includes an image of Family Group outside of the school.

Lot 1. Pandora and the Imprisoned Statues (recto); Pandora and the Sun (verso), 1950 (HMF 2587) illust. and accompanying text. Text discusses Moore's illustration for the French translation of Goethe's Prometheus. Prométhée, translated by André Gide, became Moore's first major portfolio.
Lot 20. Working Model for Mother and Child: Block Seat (LH 837, cast 2) illust. and accompanying text. Text discusses the previous owner of the work, Sir Georg Solti and his relationship with Moore. Images of Moore with Solti's daughter in his studio in the early 1980s, as well as Solti himself, are included in the text.
Lot 29. Helmet Head No.6, 1975 (LH 651, cast 7) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 140. Ideas for Sculpture, 1936-37 (HMF 1269) illust.
Lot 143. Standing Mother and Child: Holes, 1955 (LH 400a, cast i) illust.

Property from the Clark collection:
Lot 144. Figure Studies, 1944 (HMF 2289c) illust.