The Life of Henry Moore

New York: E. P. Dutton; A William Abrahams Book, 1987. Cloth, 465 pages, [96] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "In this revised, updated, expanded and redesigned new edition of The Life of Henry Moore, Roger Berthoud charts Moore's transition from controversial young modernist to pillar of the art-world establishments, garlanded with domestic and foreign honours. His account is enriched by the weekly interviews he did with Moore - and his wife Irina - before the sculptor's death in 1986, aged eighty-eight. At home and abroad Moore's sculptures aroused strong passions and were often the object of abuse, sharp criticism and even physical assault, as well as of admiration. He was attacked by younger artists, among others, who saw his growing fame as an obstacle to their advancement. He was to survive the ebb and flow of his reputation, and emerge with the status of a contemporary old master. From a mass of material, including recently discovered early letters, and interviews with Moore's friends, his former assistants and students, dealers, collectors, museum officials and leading architects with whom he worked, Roger Berthoud has built up a lively and engaging though not uncritical picture of Moore's long life and career in this definitive biography." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.