15929957750001312637261000Standard Recordobject-13445170292702825217029081780001702926909133fitz-onlineadlib-object-13445https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13445abe77f17-ee6a-3f04-8017-1bcabbf80f3e11personreferenceagent-153611adlib-agent-153611571a10fc-1846-3724-9b79-52796a63c034familyreferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturereferenceterm-110500adlib-term-1105006dc34c6c-d553-36b2-b489-9797a89deeeasociety/human lifeApplied ArtsBronze. 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.44referenceexhibition-1078adlib-exhibition-1078e82a4e89-5069-379e-97bf-735bee57dbd8Drawings by SculptorsM.409-19851accession numberM.409-198513445priref13445external IDCAM_CCF_M_409_1985urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13445https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13445MOOREsignaturereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumBequeathed by Miss Diana E.M. Hunterreferenceagent-153107adlib-agent-15310714ff5f07-dc35-368a-90d7-a4735e09dda6Hunter, Miss D. E. M.198519851985bequeathedEntry date: 1985-04-241944CE19441944sculptorreferenceagent-94904adlib-agent-94904f017d14d-4e88-3127-8e56-031660218e74Moore, Henry SpencerHenry Moore was one of the most important English sculptors of the twentieth century. As a student in Leeds and London, he admired the solidity and power of pre-classical and non-European sculpture, and from the outset of his career in the mid-1920s, he abandoned the representational idiom which had characterized European sculpture since the Renaissance. In the 1930s, Moore’s work was influenced by both Abstraction and Surrealism, but the human form, remained central to his work, especially the reclining female figure, and the mother and child.In 1944 and 1945 Moore made a series of drawings, and terracotta sketch models of family groups of a mother and father with one or two children. These were initiated by a commission from Henry Morris, Director of Education for Cambridgeshire, for a large bronze for Impington village college, designed by Walter Gropius and his partner Maxwell Fry. This project was never realised, but several of the small sketch models were cast in bronze, including this example.One of an edition of seven.referenceterm-110488adlib-term-1104884503a73a-ae49-3f4d-8814-88925dcd11a320th Century, Midreferenceterm-107003adlib-term-1070036bfae9de-212e-3a35-9034-289b230284ff1940sreferenceterm-107693adlib-term-107693afd597bc-a952-3ee0-970d-71e530f7efbcGeorge VIreferenceterm-40365adlib-term-40365d79c75c2-da7b-3187-918e-f7a374e04005bronzeHeightcm17.8Widthcm13.2referenceterm-110220adlib-term-110220e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942figure groupreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKreferencepublication-185adlib-publication-185b17f67ef-8f48-3e99-a10e-4962f5cd2a80Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975referencepublication-1077adlib-publication-10774c1d2f78-ba8f-325a-84de-a07b8a6d9e87Drawings by SculptorsPubl.172referencepublication-382adlib-publication-382ee5148de-e3eb-3d38-88db-9a331edf70b6Treasures of the Fitzwilliam MuseumRef. 3rd edition, no. 106c; 4th edition, no. 228, repr. p. 144, a terracotta model for this group144referencepublication-1103adlib-publication-11032ec87cd7-6ba9-3bc1-87fa-a021fdfd63a8Henry Moore Sculpture and DrawingsCf. A bronze signed 'M', see catalogue of exhibition held 30th Novemebr - 23rd December, 1972, p. 24, no. 9, ill. p. 25pp. 24-5referencepublication-1104adlib-publication-1104d46e4220-76eb-31f1-a0ce-338b36267d67Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry MooreCf. A comparable, but not identical group, for valuation purposes, p. 75, lot 36, ill. p. 74, estimate £70-90,000. Family group H. 15.2 cm.pp. 74-5referencepublication-2187adlib-publication-21879f6d78a7-f2b0-352c-9676-f6f9d1f24fdbImpressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpturereferenceterm-110220adlib-term-110220e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942figure groupfigure groupbronze, castreferenceterm-26699adlib-term-26699a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8casting (process)Family Groupobject
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