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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2018 | FAMILY GROUP | Sotheby's | London | ||||
sculpture
24.5 cm (9.65 in)
bronze
Acquired directly from the Artist by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947
De-accessioned, whereby acquired by Jeffrey H. Loria, New York, 1980
Acquired from the above by a Japanese Private Collection
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore, 17th December – 16th March 1947 (this cast), with tour to Chicago and San Francisco;
New York, Architectural League of New York, Modern Sculpture for Architecture, 11th December – 2nd January 1948 (this cast);
New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Acquisitions, 13th January – 21st March 1948 (this cast);
Venice, British Pavilion, XXIV Venice Biennale, 29th May – 30th October 1948 (another cast), with tour to Milan;
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, 24th August – 27th December 1948 (this cast);
New Jersey, Princeton University Art Museum, Contemporary Sculptures and Painters, 5th January – 16th January 1949 (this cast);
Paris, Musée National D’Art Moderne, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings 1923-1948, 19th November – 31st December 1949 (another cast), with tour to Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Berne and Athens;
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, 14th February – 20th November 1950 (this cast);
London, Tate, Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, 2nd May – 29th July 1951 (another cast);
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Good Design, 21st November – 28th January 1951 (this cast);
British West Indies, Contemporary British Artists, 1st January – 1st February 1952 (another cast), with tour to Malta and France;
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions, 13th February – 22nd April 1952 (this cast);
Macon, Musée Municipal, Artistes Anglais Contemporains, 10th May – 12th July 1952 (another cast);
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Henry Moore, 5th July - 2nd August 1953 (another cast), with tour to Stuttgart and Frankfurt;
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, 10th October – 7th December 1952 (this cast), with tour to Chicago and New York;
New York, Munson Williams Proctor Institute, The Figure Today, American and European Sculpture, 8th January – 29th January 1956 (this cast);
New York, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, The Figure Today, American and European Sculpture, 3rd – 24th February 1956 (this cast);
New York, Syracuse University, The School of Art, The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, 1st – 28th March 1956 (this cast);
New York, National Broadcasting Company, Today, 9th December 1958 (this cast);
Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery, Henry Moore: An Exhibition of Photographs, Reproductions, With Some Original Bronzes, 7th - 19th April 1959 (another cast), with tour to Beirut, Budapest, Kuala Lumpur, Peshawar, Oslo, Drammen, Moss, Ardenal, Asker, Trondheim, Notodden, Eskilstuna, Linkoping, Odense, Kolding, Esbjerg and Aarhus;
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Henry Moore, 16th July – 14th August 1960, cat. no.11, illustrated (another cast), with tour to Zurich;
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Paintings Sculpture and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection, 26th November – 8th September 1963 (this cast);
New York, Museum of Modern Art, From the Museum Collections: Family Portraits, 27th May – 7th February 1965 (this cast);
London, Tate, Henry Moore, July – September 1968, cat. no.68, illustrated p.173 (another cast);
Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Henry Moore, 20th May – 30th September 1972, cat. no.61, illustrated p.140 (another cast);
London, Lefevre Gallery, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, 30th November – 23rd December 1972, cat. no.12, illustrated p.31 (another cast);
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Third Floor Galleries, 29th March – 2nd January 1973 (this cast);
Amman, Jordan National Gallery, 40 Years of British Sculpture, 22nd May – 7th June 1981 (another cast), with tour to Harare, Belgrade, Skopje, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Sarajevo, Athens, Cairo, Gaborone, Heraklion, Manila, London - Ontario, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Tallin, Riga, Vilnius and Kyiv;
Sofia, 125 Rakovsky, 1300th Anniversary of the Founding of the Bulgarian State, 1981 (another cast), (details untraced);
Mexico City, Museo De Arte Moderno, Henry Moore: Esculturas, Dubjos, Grabados. Orbras 1921-1982, 1982 (another cast), with tour to Caracas;
Berlin, Nationalgalerie Der Staatlichen Museen, Henry Moore: Shelter and Coal Mining Drawings 1939-1942, 4thApril - 3rd June 1984 (another cast), with tour to Leipzig, Halle and Dresden;
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, The Art of Henry Moore, Sculptures, Drawings and Graphics 1921-1984, 1st February - 12th March 1986 (another cast), with tour to Tokyo and Fukuoka;
New Delhi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Henry Moore: Sculptures Drawings and Graphics 1922 to 1984, 1st October - 15th November 1987 (another cast);
Paris, Artcuial, British Sculptures of the XXTH Century, 1988 (another cast), (details untraced);
St Petersburg, The Russian Museum, A Changing World of Sculpture from the British Council Collection, 18th October - 21st November 1994 (another cast), with tour to Moscow, Prague, Casablanca and Essen;
Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Henry Moore: Eine Tretropektive Zum 100 Geburstag, 1998 (another cast), (details untraced);
Manheim, Kunsthalle, Menschenbilder Figur In Zeiten Der Abstraktion, 1998 (another cast), (details untraced);
Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, Sculpture in the Home Re-Staging a Post War Initiative, 2nd October 2008 – 4th January 2009, illustrated (another cast).
Herbert Read (intro.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Lund Humphries, New York, 1949, cat. no.106b, illustrated (another cast);
Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, Thames and Hudson, London, 1960, cat. no.123, illustrated (another cast, dated 1946);
John Hedgecoe (ed.), Henry Spencer Moore, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968, cat. no.9, illustrated p.177 (another cast);
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Tudor Publishing, New York, 1968, illustrated pl.14 (another cast, dated 1946);
Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, H. N. Abrams, London, 1970, p.353, cat. no.356, illustrated (another cast);
David Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore Sculpture, with Comments by the Artist, MacMillan, London, 1981, p.310, cat. no.175, illustrated p.94 (another cast);
David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1921-48, Vol. I, Lund Humphries, London, 5th edi. 1988, cat. no.259, illustrated p.151 (another cast);
Connaissance des Arts, 'Moore,' June 1992, p.10, illustrated (another cast);
David Mitchinson (ed.), Celebrating Moore, Lund Humphries, Los Angeles, 1998, cat. no.155, illustrated p.221 (another cast, dated 1948-49).
bronze
height: 24.5cm.; 9¾in.
Conceived in 1945 and cast by 1947, the present work is from the edition of 9.
