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Bird
Photography © Tate 2014.  For the supply of this image please contact Tate Images - <a href="ma…
Photography © Tate 2014. For the supply of this image please contact Tate Images - <a href="mailto:tate.images@tate.org.uk">tate.images@tate.org.uk</a>

Bird

Date1959
Artwork TypeSculpture Summary
Catalogue NumberLH 445
Mediabronze
Dimensionsartwork (h x l x d): 12.1 × 37.5 × 13 cm
Ownershipedition summary - see individual casts for ownership
More Information
Edition summary
Bronze edition of 12+1 artist's copy, cast c.1959-60
Foundry: Art Bronze Foundry (Gaskin's), London

Current or last known owner - click on the 'related' tab below to find out more about specific works
cast a: The Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London: gift of the artist 1978
cast b: Gwendolyn Weiner Collection; on long-term loan to the Palm Springs Art Museum
cast c: Christie's, New York, 8 May 2001
cast d: Norton Simon Museum: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Taft Schreiber
cast e: private collection
cast f: Sotheby's, London, 30 Nov 1994
cast g: Phillips, London, 9 Mar 2018
cast h: unknown
cast i: Christie's, London, 7 Feb 2007
cast j: unknown
cast k: unknown
cast l: unknown
cast m: unknown

plaster, 1959: The Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
ExhibitionsPublished References
Bird
LH 39
1927
Bird
LH 393
1955
Bird in Hand
LH 664
1975
Bird Table
LH 363
1954
Bird
LH 39 cast a
1927 cast c.1949
photo: University of Michigan Museum of Art
LH 39 cast b
1927 cast c.1949
Archive image of a representative cast
LH 393 cast b
1955
photo: Mark Stephenson
LH 445 cast b
1959
Bird
LH 393 cast d
1955
Object: Bird Form
LH 394 cast b
1955
Bird in Hand
LH 664 cast 0
1975