{"id":315877,"date":"2026-03-06T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:54:07","slug":"henry-moore-sculpture-sells-for-26m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315877\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Moore sculpture sells for \u00a326m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sculpture by world-renowned artist Henry Moore has sold for \u00a326m at auction &#8211; \u00a311m more than the sum it was expected to fetch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">King and Queen has been in a private British collection since it was bought from Moore&#8217;s studio in 1953 and it went on sale at Christie&#8217;s auction house on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, and studied at Leeds School of Art alongside Wakefield sculptor Barbara Hepworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philip Harley, senior director in Modern British and Irish Art at Christie&#8217;s, previously said the bronze was &#8220;undisputedly a masterpiece&#8221; and that it was &#8220;an incredible moment&#8221; to be able to offer it at auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sculpture by world-renowned artist Henry Moore has sold for \u00a326m at auction &#8211; \u00a311m more than the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-315877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}