Moore Working Model for Two Piece Reclining Figure: Cut
Published February 26th, 2008
An outstanding bronze with brown patina of a ‘Working Model for Two Piece Reclining Figure:Cut’ by the renowned artist, Henry Moore will be sold at Bonhams sale of 20th Century British Art in New Bond Street on Wednesday 12 March 2008.
Conceived in 1979, towards the end of Moore’s life, Working Model for Two Piece Reclining Figure: Cut, demonstrates Moore’s consistent ability to innovate and to create works whose hallmark is supreme technical and visual finesse.
One of Moore’s finest skills as sculptor is his aptitude for controlling the effects of light across the surface of his work. In this work, light is truly exploited as it rolls across the undulating forms of the bronze to articulate the reclining female figure.
Estimated to fetch £300,000-500,000, the work will be sold on behalf of the Estate of Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan - the proceeds benefiting the University of California in San Diego, USA.
The work is one of an edition of nine which are just under 100 centimetres long. Of this edition, only one has previously been seen at auction, nearly twenty years ago in 1989. One work can be seen in the collection of the Henry Moore Foundation and currently on view at the exhibition at Kew Gardens.
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