Henry Moore, Family Group

bronze
15 7/8 x 10 1/2 x 7 in. (40.5 x 26.7 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1947, this work is from an edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation. Other examples from the edition are housed in the collections of the Göteborgs Konstmuseum, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Provenance:
Ewan Phillips, London
Frank and Ivy Avray Wilson, England and France (acquired in 1955)
Acquired from the above by the present owner on August 29, 1996

Exhibited:
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. 31, pp. 138, 141 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 54)

Literature:
David Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore: Volume 1, Complete Sculpture 1921-48, London, 1957, no. 267, p. 16 (another example illustrated, p. 149)
Erich Neumann, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, New York, 1959, no. 53, p. xi (another example illustrated, p. 86)
Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, no. 122, p. 8 (another example illustrated, p. 168)
John Hedgecoe, ed., Henry Moore, New York, 1968, no. 3, p. 528 (another example illustrated, p. 176)
Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, no. 251, p. 75
Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 364, p. 353 (another example illustrated, p. 170)
Alan G. Wilkinson, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Toronto, 1987, fig. 61, p. 129 (another example illustrated)

Property of an Important East Coast Collector