This is an early example of an interactive sculpture with two mobile parts.

Moss is also known as a painter but turned to 3 dimensional work after studying architecture in Cornwall during the Second World War. Moss mainly worked in Paris but operated in the same sphere as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

Provenance

Willem Sandberg, Director of the Stedelijk Museum 1945-1964; by descent; Rene Gimpel, 2004.


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