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21 Property from the Collection of Sir Georg Solti K.B.E Henry Moore Follow Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby incised with the artist's signature and number “Moore 7/9” on the base bronze 15 1/2 x 30 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (39.5 x 78.6 x 40.3 cm.) Conceived in 1982, cast in 1983, this work is number 7 from an edition of 9 plus 1 artist’s proof. This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation.
Provenance Sir Georg K.B.E. & Lady Solti (acquired directly from the artist by November 1983) Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Moore 60 Years of His Art , May 14 - September 25, 1983, p. 120 (another example exhibited and illustrated as Draped Reclining Mother and Child ) London, Marlborough Fine Art, Henry Moore 85th Birthday Exhibition , June 15 - August 13, 1983, no. 31, p. 62 (another example exhibited and illustrated as Draped Reclining Mother and Baby ) Hempstead, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University; University Park, Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University; Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania; The Baltimore Art Museum, Mother and Child: The Art of Henry Moore , September 10, 1987 - April 17, 1988, no. 110, p. 119 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Beijing, Beihai Park; Beijing, China Art Gallery; Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art; Shanghai Art Museum, Moore in China , October 24, 2000 - April 15, 2001, no. 108, p. 85 (another example exhibited and illustrated) Sakura, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Ashikaga Museum of Art; Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Henry Moore A Living Presence , April 5 - November 3, 2003, no. S62, p. 88 (another example exhibited and illustrated; studio installation view illustrated pp. 158-159) Literature Tanya Harrod, “Henry Moore at Eighty Five,” Art International, vol. XXVI , no. 5, November - December 1983, p. 14 (another example illustrated as Draped Reclining Mother and Baby ) Alan Bowness, ed., Henry Moore Complete Sculpture, 1981-1986, vol. 6 , London, 1988, no. 821, pl. 79, p. 41 (another example illustrated as Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby ) Jacob D. Weintraub, ed., Master Sculptors of the XX Century , New York, 1987, no. 58 (another example illustrated) Angela Dyer, ed., Henry Moore The Human Dimension , London, 1991, no. 113, p. 136 (another example illustrated) Alan Bowness, Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation , London, 1998, p. 46 Catalogue Essay "From very early on I have had an obsession with the Mother and Child theme. It has been a universal theme from the beginning of time and some of the earliest sculptures we’ve found from the Neolithic Age are of a Mother and Child…So that I was conditioned, as it were, to see it in everything. I suppose it could be explained as a 'Mother complex’." - Henry Moore Uniting Henry Moore’s iconic subjects of the reclining figure with that of the mother and child, Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby , 1982, depicts a tender sculptural portrait of a reclining mother with her infant. While beautifully modulated drapery largely conceals the figure’s anatomy, a clearly delineated arm forms a protective right angle around the baby, while the mother’s eyes stare unblinkingly outward at the viewer. The reclining mother and child form represents an incredibly rare theme in Moore’s oeuvre. The work was conceived in 1982 as a model for Moore’s large-scale bronze sculpture Draped Reclining Mother and Baby, casts of which reside in the Ho-Am Museum of Art, Seoul, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, among others. Cast in bronze and patinated by Moore himself, this intimate work demonstrates the intrinsic quality of immediacy with which the artist formed the figure in clay with his own hands as a way of working through ideas for his more monumental sculptures. Unseen by the wider public in nearly 40 years, Working Model for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby was acquired directly from Moore by Sir Georg Solti K.B.E. One of the greatest conductors of the past century, Solti revolutionized the science and art of recording classical music during his tenure at Decca Records – winning the greatest number of Grammy Awards in both the classical and pop category – and transformed institutions such as the Musical Director