27 HENRY MOORE (1898-1986) Wall Relief: Maquette No.6 Bronze with a green patina 34 x 47 cm / 13 ½ x 18 ½ inches Conceived in 1955 and cast by Fiorini in an edition of 7 LH370
PROVENANCE Private collection, Canada. EXHIBITED 1960, Henry Moore: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1950-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, no.37 (another cast). 1987, Henry Moore Remembered: The Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, no.102 (another cast). 1988, Henry Moore, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, no.131 (another cast). LITERATURE Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore: An Exhibition of Sculpture from 1950-1960, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, 1960, cat.no.37, ill. (another cast). John HEDGECOE and Henry MOORE. Henry Moore, New York, USA, 1968, no.9, p.215 (another cast). Robert MELVILLE. Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, 1970, no.493 p.358, (plaster version, ill. pl.493, p.228, catalogued as an edition of 10). Alan G. WILKINSON. Henry Moore Remembered, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 1987, no.102, ill.p.157 (another cast). Susan COMPTON. Henry Moore: Catalogue of the Royal Academy Exhibition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 1988, ill.pl.131, p.103 (another cast). Alan BOWNESS (ed.). Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture 1955-64, Volume 3, Lund Humphries Publishers, Aldershot, UK, 2005, cat.no.370, p.18, ill.p.19. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (gifted by Henry Moore in 1974).
‘In the random grouping of the forms, Maquette No.6, one of the most interesting and varied of the wall relief maquettes, is reminiscent of Moore's sketchbook sheets with ideas for sculpture. Here the reliefs include a lobster's claw just left of centre; at upper right a fragment from a stringed-figure sculpture almost certainly made in the late 1930s; below this a cast of a work related to the small Maquette for Head of 1937; at lower left, turned upside down, Small Relief: Lower Half of Upright Motive: Maquette No.1.’17