Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986) Seated Woman one Arm

Description:

Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986)

Seated Woman one Arm, 1956
Signed and numbered "H Moore 2/9" on the bottom.
Bronze with golden/brown patina, height including bronze base 8 in. (20.2 cm),presented on a black resin turntable.
Condition: Minor wear.

Provenance: Max Stern, Dominion Gallery through to Robert W. Booth, Worcester, Massachusetts, then by descent to the present owner.

Literature: Alan Bowness, editor, Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1955-1964, (Humphries Lund: London),entry LH 410.

N.B. Booth was a philanthropist and great admirer of British art. The British gallery at the Worcester Art Museum is named in his honor.
Henry Moore, born in Yorkshire in 1898 to a coal-mining family, would eventually become one of the most celebrated artists of his time1. After fighting in the First World War, he returned to study at the Leeds School of Art in his early twenties and later taught at the Royal College of Art in London. While his work was highly criticized for much of the next two decades, he received acclaim in the early 1940s for his sketches of reclining figures, which he drew of the many Londoners crowded into underground stations during air raids1. While the first part of his career was mainly devoted to drawing, he turned to sculpture in the 1940s and worked with a variety of materials including wood, stone, and bronze. His forms are extremely organic and fluid, demonstrated especially well in his broad variety of reclining figures, for which he is perhaps most famous. In this particular work, Moore's interest in ancient Cycladic and African art can clearly be seen1 Hall, Donald. The Life and Work of a Great Sculptor: Henry Moore. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

We wish to thank The Henry Moore Foundation for their kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.
Estimate $50,000-75,000

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