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MOTHER AND CHILD WITH WAVE BACKGROUND I 1976
Henry Moore (1898 – 1986)
Details
- Dimension
- 264 x 175 mm
- Media
- LITHOGRAPH
- Accession number
- P5169
Summary
To celebrate Moore's 80th birthday in 1978 an anniversary portfolio was put together, comprising lithographs of various subjects chosen from images which had already reached proofing stage. Some of the works were based on a fragment of another print; Moore used the fragment in a variety of inventive ways: in one it was a bench, in another a pillar or a seat and, in the work here, is used as the ‘chairback’. The portfolio contained nine lithographs published by Orde Levinson, London in an edition of 50.
Glossary
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Edition
All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.
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Portfolio
A set of pictures (as drawings, photographs or prints) either bound in book form or loose in a folder. These can be by the same artist or individual works by a selection of artists. The term also refers to the folder which holds the set.
