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Mother and Child: Fragment

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Mother and Child: Fragment
Mother and Child: Fragment
Mother and Child: Fragment

Mother and Child: Fragment

Date1956
Artwork TypeSculpture Summary
Catalogue NumberLH 409b
Mediabronze
Dimensionspublished dimensions: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
Ownershipedition summary - see individual casts for ownership
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Edition summary
Bronze edition, cast 1976
Foundry: Bildgiesserei Hermann Noack, Berlin
Note: Although intended as an edition of 9+1 artist’s copy, our records suggest that only 9 casts were made.

Current or last known owner - click on the 'related' tab below to find out more about specific works
cast 1: Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2004
cast 2: Christie's, London, 5 Feb 2014
cast 3: unknown
cast 4: unknown
cast 5: unknown
cast 6: unknown
cast 7: unknown
cast 8: unknown
cast 9: unknown

plaster, 1956: unknown
ExhibitionsPublished References
Fragment of King
LH 348a
1952-53 cast 1960
Fragment Figure
LH 430
1957
Reclining Figure: Fragment
LH 331a cast 0
1952 cast 1969
Draped Reclining Figure: Fragment
LH 332a cast 0
1953 cast 1969
WA1993.330 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. <br>If you wish to reproduce this im…
LH 430 cast b
1957 cast 1961
photo: Yale Center for British Art
LH 430 cast f
1957 cast 1961
Bone Fragment
LH X95
c.1959-60