Sketch-Model for Reclining Figure, 1946

Not on View

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 8.3 x 16.8 x 7.2 cm (3 1/4 x 6 5/8 x 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Given in memory of Frederick Zimmermann by his wife, Dorothy Zimmermann

Accession Number

1985.18.3

Artists / Makers

Henry Moore (sculptor) British, 1898 - 1986

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Provenance

Acquired 1947 by (Buchholz Gallery, New York [later Curt Valentin Gallery, New York]); acquired 11 August 1955 by Frederick Zimmermann [1906-1967], New York;[1] by inheritance to his wife, Dorothy Zimmermann [d. 1989], New York; gift 1985 to NGA.

[1] During the liquidation sale of the dealer Curt Valentin's gallery and personal collection, Mr. Zimmermann exchanged, in return for the maquette, Henry Moore's colored drawing titled Sketch for Reclining Figures. The maquette was on consignment to the New York dealer Harold Diamond from January to April 1967, when it was returned to Mr. Zimmermann, who died in August of that year. (See documents from the donor, in NGA curatorial files.)

Associated Names

Buchholz Gallery, New York
Zimmermann, Frederick
Zimmermann, Frederick, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2001: Henry Moore, Dallas Museum of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, no. 51a, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 155, repro.