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Title/s | Family Group |
Maker/s | Moore, Henry Spencer (sculptor) [ULAN info: British sculptor, 1898-1986] |
Category |
sculpture |
Name |
figure group |
Description | Bronze. A mother and father seated, with one child standing between the father's knees and another smaller child sitting on the mother's lap. The father places his right hand on the mother's left shoulder and his right hand on the standing child's left shoulder. |
Production Notes | One of an edition of seven. Cast from a terracotta sketch-model for a large-scale sculpture for Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire, but not executed. |
Production Place | England (country) |
Technique Description | bronze, cast |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 17.8
cm |
Period | mid 20th century |
Date | 1944 |
Provenance | bequeathed: Hunter, Miss D.E.M. 1985 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Bequeathed by Miss Diana E.M. Hunter |
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Documentation |
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Other Notes | A drawing for this group in the Scottish National gallery of Modern Art Edinbrugh was exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, 16 September -11 December 1988, Henry Moore, London, 1988 p. 253, no. 166, and see also information about Family Groups on p. 224, no. 107 |
Accession Number | M.409-1985 (Applied Arts) |
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