Lot 124000456
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124000456
Henry Moore
Maquette for Sheep Piece, 1969.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,260 - 25,680
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Maquette for Sheep Piece. 1969.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the signature and the stamped number on the rear of the base. From an edition of seven copies (plus one artist copy). Height: 9 cm (3.5 in). Including base: 11,3 x 14 x 11,5 cm (4,4 x 5,5 x 4,5 in).
Cast by Fiorini Ltd., London, in 1974.
[CH]
The "Working Model for Sheep Piece" (1971), likewise from the Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection, will be called up in our Evening Sale on June 7, 2024.
More works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection are offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024, as well as in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 (see catalog “Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr - A Private Collection”).
• In 1969, he made first sketches and the maquette for the large "Sheep Piece" from 1971/72.
• Moore created a sculpture of two different parts that touch each other; with the combination of a smaller, passive form and a larger, more active one, he drew on the mother-child theme that is so prevalent in his oeuvre.
• From the window of his studio, Moore looked onto a sheep pasture, which inspired him to drawings of sheep that eventually let to the monumental "Sheep Piece".
• Another copy of this maquette is at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
The work is documented at the Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, with the number LH 625.
PROVENANCE: Jane Wade Lombard and Lee Lombard Collection, New York.
Private collection Germany.
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection (acquired from the above in 2004).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Alan Bowness, Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings, vol. 4 (1964-1973), London 1977, no. 625 (illu. in black and white, different copy).
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Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 290, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, May 14, 2004, lot 274 (illu.).
"I'll produce several maquettes, not much bigger than one's hand, certainly small enough to hold in one's hand [..] and you have a complete grasp of their shape from all around the whole time."
Henry Moore, in: Philip James, Henry Moore on Sculpture, London 1966.
"Once I have reached the maquette stage, and I hold the sculpture in my hand, I often decide whether I will make it life-size, even bigger than life-size or smaller, meaning that I determine its actual 'physical' size. “
Henry Moore, from: ex. cat. Henry Moore. Ursprung und Vollendung, Munich 1996, p. 31.
Bronze with brown patina.
With the signature and the stamped number on the rear of the base. From an edition of seven copies (plus one artist copy). Height: 9 cm (3.5 in). Including base: 11,3 x 14 x 11,5 cm (4,4 x 5,5 x 4,5 in).
Cast by Fiorini Ltd., London, in 1974.
[CH]
The "Working Model for Sheep Piece" (1971), likewise from the Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection, will be called up in our Evening Sale on June 7, 2024.
More works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection are offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024, as well as in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 (see catalog “Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr - A Private Collection”).
• In 1969, he made first sketches and the maquette for the large "Sheep Piece" from 1971/72.
• Moore created a sculpture of two different parts that touch each other; with the combination of a smaller, passive form and a larger, more active one, he drew on the mother-child theme that is so prevalent in his oeuvre.
• From the window of his studio, Moore looked onto a sheep pasture, which inspired him to drawings of sheep that eventually let to the monumental "Sheep Piece".
• Another copy of this maquette is at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
The work is documented at the Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, with the number LH 625.
PROVENANCE: Jane Wade Lombard and Lee Lombard Collection, New York.
Private collection Germany.
Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection (acquired from the above in 2004).
Ever since family-owned.
LITERATURE: Alan Bowness, Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings, vol. 4 (1964-1973), London 1977, no. 625 (illu. in black and white, different copy).
- -
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 290, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts, May 14, 2004, lot 274 (illu.).
"I'll produce several maquettes, not much bigger than one's hand, certainly small enough to hold in one's hand [..] and you have a complete grasp of their shape from all around the whole time."
Henry Moore, in: Philip James, Henry Moore on Sculpture, London 1966.
"Once I have reached the maquette stage, and I hold the sculpture in my hand, I often decide whether I will make it life-size, even bigger than life-size or smaller, meaning that I determine its actual 'physical' size. “
Henry Moore, from: ex. cat. Henry Moore. Ursprung und Vollendung, Munich 1996, p. 31.
124000456
Henry Moore
Maquette for Sheep Piece, 1969.
Bronze with brown patina
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,260 - 25,680
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
