Elephant Skull, 1970

by Henry Moore

Print : etching 21.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch

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Type

Numbered and limited to 115 copies

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

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Medium

Print: etching

Dimensions cm inch

21.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

Framing

Not framed


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Animal

Elephants

Black

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: Italy

Elephant Skull is an original modern rare print suite realized by Henry Moore, with text by various authors, in 1970 . Published by Gérald Cramer, Geneva. Original First Collected edition. Format: in Folio (535 x 408 mm). Sheet Size: 498 x 366 mm. 115 numbered and signed copies This is copy n° 8 of the edition de tête of 15 copies with additional suite of 5 etchings.

Loose leaves in original vellum wrappers. The book includes 28 and five numbered and signed Etchings. Printed title, leaf with justification, half-title, four leaves with foreword by Henry J. Seldis illustrated with four etched vignettes, leaf with 'achevé d'imprimer', leaf with list of plates and 28 monochrome etchings by Henry Moore (numbered I - XXVIII), each printed recto only on a single sheet (sheet size: 498 x 366 mm) issued in a folded sheet with printed title and plate number and 5 additional etchings present in the suite (lettered A - E); each etching is signed and numbered by Moore in pencil.

Loose as issued in original publisher's vellum printed wrappers, suite loose in additional wrapper, coarse-weave cloth box with title to front cover and spine. Moore's involved exploration in etching of the skull of an elephant. From the edition limited to 115 numbered copies signed in ink by Moore on the justification, with this one of the first 15 édition de tête with the additional suite of 5 signed etchings (issued only with the édition de tête). 'Moore described the elephant skull ... as 'the most impressive item in my 'library' of natural forms'.

He had always collected natural found objects, including many pieces of bone, and the accumulation of such items in his original small maquette studio at Perry Green was a particularly rich source of inspiration ... Juliette Huxley, wife of Moore's friend Sir Julian Huxley, gave the skull to Moore in 1966; he had seen it in the Huxley's Hampstead garden in February 1965, a couple of years after it had arrived from Kenya.' (Mitchinson).
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Henry Moore

Henry Moore

United Kingdom  • 1898  - 1966

​Master Artists

Henry Moore was an English artist, who was born in 1898 and died in 1986.

From a working class family, Henry Moore was one of the first sculptors to bring a particular form of artistic modernism to British society at the start of the 20th century, for which he drew inspiration from primitive art.

Henry Moore was very successful from the 1930s onwards; he taught in several universities and his creations quickly went to the top of the art market. By the end of the 1940s, he was seen as the voice of British sculpture, having earned worldwide renown. However, while the artist's recognition and popularity increased, particularly in the way of commissions, he preferred to live simply after the end of World War II, and gave most of his earnings to the Henry Moore association to help support the education, promotion and distribution of art.

Henry Moore's sculptures are mainly inspired by the feminine body, and he gradually moved towards more abstract and elongated forms. His signature motif is a reclining form, and he worked mostly in monumental bronze. He created numerous works documenting the Blitz during the Second World War in London, which are preserved at the British Museum.


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