Head of a Girl
"Head of a Girl" is a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore from 1927 that exemplifies the artist's early exploration of abstract forms derived from natural observation. The work demonstrates Moore's characteristic approach of simplifying the human head into organic, biomorphic shapes while maintaining subtle references to the female visage. This piece marks a significant moment in Moore's development toward the monumental, abstracted sculptural language he would become renowned for throughout the twentieth century.
- Location
- Christie's, Beverly Hills, CA
- Spotted At
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🔨 Auction Lot
Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale
March 18, 2026
Estimate: $130,000 to $180,000
Sold: $115,000
Lot 18
Artists in conversation
Constantin Brancusi
Romanian · b. 1876
Brancusi similarly reduced the human head and figure to essential organic forms in bronze and stone, as seen in his Mademoiselle Pogany and Sleeping Muse series, which share the same biomorphic simplification of the female visage that Moore pursued in this 1927 work.
Barbara Hepworth
British · b. 1903
Hepworth worked in the same British modernist tradition as Moore, creating bronze and stone sculptures that abstracted the human form into smooth, contemplative organic shapes, reflecting a nearly identical aesthetic philosophy of distilling natural observation into monumental three dimensional form.
Jacques Lipchitz
Lithuanian French · b. 1891
Lipchitz produced figurative bronze sculptures during the same early modernist period that translated the human head and portrait subject into abstracted, volumetric forms, sharing Moore's interest in merging cubist influence with organic sculptural mass and contemplative mood.
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