London's Tate Gallery owns more Henry Moores than any other museum about 50 pieces in all. But, like the works of Britain's foremost living sculptor, the Tate's Moore collection also has a number of holes. Moore, who has always had "a soft spot" for the Tate, has saved a copy of every work he has done since 1949. He has long planned a gift of 20 or 30 piecesworth, at current market prices, between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000to provide a complete cross-section of his life work.
All the same, when word of the intended bequest leaked to London's Sunday Telegraph last week, the...
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