Reclining Figure, 1945
Bronze
From the edition of 7
Reference LH1/246
9.0 x 15.0 x 6.5 cm (3½ x 6 x 2½ inches)

Provenance:
Curt Valentin, New York
Alfred & Anne Hentzen, Hamburg (a gift from the above in 1953)
Collection of the Late Sidney E Frank

Literature:
David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, 1921-48, London, 1988, vol. I, no. 246

Notes:
Reclining Figure
1945
Bronze
Edition of 7
Length 15cm

Literature:

Lund Humphries, catalogue raisonne of the sculpture of Henry Moore, volume one, number 246

Provenance;

Curt Valentin, New York
Alfred and Anne Hentzen, Hamburg
Berkeley Square Gallery London
The Sidney Frank Collection
Private collection NY

Descriptive:

This pivotal maquette was moulded in clay and baked into terracotta as a sketch model study for the large Hornton stone carving of 1949, one of the greatest early reclining figures. The terracotta and the study in bronze were first revealed at the time of Moore’s first major USA exhibition, at MOMA New York in 1946. The terracotta is illustrated in the book that accompanied the exhibition. The bronze edition went largely to Valentin-Buchholz Gallery in New York where Moore exhibited at that time. The position of these early figures, in particular the exaggerated raised knee, owe something to the Chacmool sculptures of Central America that Moore had seen in the British Museum in London. In many of the sculptures of this period he also adds definition to the body and head of the figure with a more marked anatomical structure and a further delineation of the head and body.
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