Mar 13, 2018 - Sale 2469

Sale 2469 - Lot 549

Price Realized: $ 35,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
HENRY MOORE
Half Figure.

Bronze with brownish patina, 1952. 182 mm; 7 1/8 inches (height, excluding separate wooden base). Edition of 5.

Ex-collection the studio of the artist, London; to Laing Galleries; acquired from the above by private collection, Palm Beach, Florida; thence by descent to the current owner, November, 1959. With a copy of the original receipt from Laing Galleries.

Published in Bowness, Henry Moore, Sculpture 1949-54, London, 1965, volume 2, number 45 (another cast illustrated).

With a copy of a letter from the Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham, confirming this cast and provenance is consistent with their files, dated May 29, 1991.