HENRY MOORE (1898-1986, British)
Girl Reading Book (Woman Reading) 1946 (cast into bronze 1973)
Estimate: $40000 - 50000
Sold For:
$40000 hammer
$48000 inc. buyer's premium
Description
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986, British)
Girl Reading Book (Woman Reading) 1946 (cast into bronze 1973)
bronze with green patina
13.0 cm height
signed in base: Moore
edition: 5/7
Provenance:
Lambeth Arts Limited, London
Leon Velik, London
James Kirkman Gallery, London 1973
Andrew Ivanyi, Melbourne 1975
Private collection, New South Wales since 1975
Reference:
Sylvester, D. (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, London, 1969, vol.I, no.264, terracotta catalogued as Woman Reading p.16
Related Works:
Another edition of this work forms part of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England
Estimate: $40000 - 50000
Result Hammer: $40000
Location
Auction in Melbourne, 23 September 2010
Exhibition in Sydney, 9-12 September 2010
Exhibition in Melbourne, 16-22 September 2010