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HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Upright Internal/External Form: Flower
signed and numbered 'Moore 3/6' (on the left side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
height (excluding base): 25 5/8 in. (65 cm.)
Conceived in 1951 and cast in bronze in 1965, in a numbered edition of 6
Provenance
Private collection.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 8 May 2003, lot 229.
William Rubin, New York.
Private collection, New York, by descent from the above.
David Lévy & Associés, Brussels & Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
A. Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore Complete Sculpture, vol. II, Sculpture and Drawings 1949-1954, London, 1968, no. 293b, p. xxv (another cast illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 422, p. 355 (another cast illustrated).
D. Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore Sculpture with comments by the artist, London & Basingstoke, 1981, no. 239, p. 118 (another cast illustrated pp. 118 & 119).
A. Bowness, Henry Moore Complete Sculpture, vol. II, Sculpture 1949-1954, London, 1986, no. 293b (another cast illustrated).
C. Lichtenstern, Henry Moore Work-Theory-Impact, London, 2008, pp. 264-265, 271, 302, 376, 414 (illustrated fig. 302, p. 264).
Special notice
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