Rocking Chair No. 4: Miniature

细节

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Rocking Chair No. 4: Miniature
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5¾in. (14.6cm.)
Cast in 1950 in an edition of nine

来源

Curt Valentin Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired by Eleanor S. and John M. Shoenberg, 1954)

出版

R. Melville, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 400 (large bronze version illustrated)
ed. D. Mitchinson, Henry Moore, Sculpture, with Comments by the Artist, London, 1981, no. 200 (another cast illustrated, p. 105)
ed. A. Bowness, Henry Moore, Complete Sculpture, London, 1986,
vol. 2 (1949-54), no. 277 (another cast illustrated, pl. 17)

拍品专文

In 1950 Henry Moore created four bronze variants of a rocking chair as toys for his four-year-old-daughter Mary. The artist noted, "I discovered while doing them that the speed of the rocking depended on the curvature of the base, the disposition of the weights and balance of the sculpture, so each of them rocks at a different speed." (as quoted in J. Hedgecoe, Henry Moore, New York, 1968, p. 178)
The present work is a smaller, more intimate version of Rocking Chair No. 3 (Bowness, vol. 2, no. 276), which is more closely related to Rocking Chair No. 1 (Bowness, vol. 2, no. 274), in that the depiction of the mother and chair is more abstract and simplified in form. The figure of the mother is probably based on a sculpture of an Egyptian fertility goddess located in the British Museum.