Henry Moore 1898-1986
Reclining Woman No. 2, 1980
Bronze
5 7/8 x 11 3/8 x 5 7/8 in
15 x 29 x 15 cm
15 x 29 x 15 cm
Edition 4 of 9 plus 1 artist's proof
Signed Moore and numbered 4/9
This sculpture is reminiscent of the much earlier Reclining Figure (1939) Moore sculpted in Elmwood, a medium he used from 1935 and which culminated in 1978. It is in the...
This sculpture is reminiscent of the much earlier Reclining Figure (1939) Moore sculpted in Elmwood, a medium he used from 1935 and which culminated in 1978. It is in the elmwood sculpture of 1939 that Moore refined his distinct hollowing and confirmed a new level in the equivalence of figure to landscape – both of which are revisited with great intensity here.
Provenance
The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, 1981;Private collection, London (acquired from the above);
Osborne Samuel, London
Literature
John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore (London: Collins & Brown, 1998), p.224, cat no.685 (ill.col. p.245);A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, vol. 6, 1980-1986 (London: Lund Humphries, 1988), p.40, cat.no. 811, (ill. b&w, p.41)
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