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Lot 13
  • 13

Henry Moore 1898 - 1986

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Three Women with a Child and Reclining Figures on Music Lines
  • signé et antidaté 50 ; titré au dos
  • crayon, crayon gras, lavis d'aquarelle et feutre vert
  • 29,1 x 23,4 cm
  • 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
  • Exécuté vers 1954-56

Provenance

Collection Ezio Gribaudo, Turin
Acquis auprès du précédent

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Lo Spazio, Henry Moore : Disegni dal 1928 al 1971, 1972, no. 33

Literature

David Mitchinson, Taccuini inediti di Henry Moore, Turin, 1971, un détail de cette œuvre reproduit pl. 168
Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete drawings, Aldershot, 2003, vol. IV : 1950-76, no. AG 54-56.1 (HMF 2601), reproduit p. 64

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is fixed to the over-mount at two points along the right edge. Apart from some tiny scattered spots of faint foxing and some light time-staining, this work is in excellent original condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed and backdated 50 ; titled on the reverse ; pencil, wax crayon, colour wash and felt-tipped pen. Executed circa 1954-56.