Robert B Moir sculptures?

These ladies have been hanging around a couple years now.
There was once printed information on them, but its lost now.

One is signed on the bottom, Moir. There is another stone sculpture with the same signature I found online that came out of Esther Goldfrank's collection and sold back on 2007, but that is the only other actual carving(?) I have found, everything else is photographs of carvings.

They are incredibly heavy, what do yall believe they are made of?

What do yall think is going on with the woman "sleeping"?
I initially thought she was just curled up, but it seems there are an extra pair of legs? under her. It almost reminds me of the bodies at Pompeii.

 

Looks like ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=pum...2A8&bih=692&biw=1448&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS900US902

The second figure is at an angle for that shape under her to be her left leg. The right leg is not part of the composition. Or it's just a folded pillow.

 

I reckon that could be the other leg

I believe it might be granite. Upon studying what little I can find of his works, it looked like he used limestone, granite, and plaster for his sculptures.

I found a few pictures from an exhibition in NY, in Nov 1951. The sculptures look very similar to these ladies as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if they came from this show.

 

How nice to have found that photo and date.

 

Granite usually has color, that is one of the reasons it is used for countertops. The stone looks like the same stone they use for lithographic stones, which is limestone. The larger stones are so heavy you have to use a little forklift to get them on the workbench.

 

This lithographic stone is 12 X 10 X 3 and weighs I would guess around 50 pounds.

 

It may be limestone, but I still say granite.
I'll have several people check them out.

They arent so heavy that I *couldnt* pick them up, I'd just like to keep my knees and back intact.
You can slide them with a foot, but we move them easily with a hand truck.

 

Just talking it out and comparing his works, here is an example of each, one in limestone, the other granite. It seems as if his works in limestone have a "polished" finish, while the granite is left with a rougher finish.




I've contacted the gallery which held the exhibition on hopes they might have it archived, but since these pictures have been up for sale, I dont hold much hope.

The Smithsonian got back in touch with me, but only has a collection of paintings and suggested I go to the library for art books, but
I live in a very rural area, art is not much on the agenda. I looked through the online catalog and didn't see any of the types of books they suggested, but I'll probably give them a call to double check.