Lot 410
  • 410

Henry Moore

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Three Reclining Figures
  • Signed Moore (lower right); inscribed 3 Reclining Figures (Metal) and dated 75 (on the verso)
  • Watercolor, crayon, chalk and pencil on paper
  • 13 by 9 1/2 in.
  • 33 by 24.1 cm

Provenance

The Henry Moore Foundation (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1977)
Sale: Phillips, New York, May 13, 1985, lot 63
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Ermantingen, Switzerland, Ausbildungzentrum Wolfsberg der Schweizerischen Bankgesellschaft, Henry Moore: Lithographien, Zeichnungen 1969-1977, Skulpturen, 1978
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Henry Moore: Sculptures, Drawings, The Last Ten Years, 1982, no. 28
Paris, Galerie Maeght, Henry Moore, 1983, no. 31

Literature

Anne Garrould, Henry Moore Drawings, London, 1988, illustrated pl. 222
Anne Garrould, ed., Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1950-76, vol. 4, Much Hadham, 2003, no. AG 75.27, illustrated p. 318 (image incorrectly numbered)

Condition

The work is in excellent condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The sheet is hinged to a mount at two places on the top and bottom edges of the verso. The sheet is very gently undulated and its right and bottom edges are slightly deckled.
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