Lot 51
  • 51

Henry Moore

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Reclining Figures: Ideas for Sculpture
  • Signed Moore (lower right)
  • India ink, wash, crayon and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard
  • 15 by 21 7/8 in.
  • 38 by 55.5 cm
  • Executed in 1937.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, London, December 13, 1961, lot 157
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Private Collection

Exhibited

Purchase, New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, The Private Eye: 20th Century Art from New York and Connecticut Collections, 1984, n.n.

Literature

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1930-39, vol. 2, London, 1998, no. AG 37.38, illustrated p. 189

Condition

India ink, wash, crayon and pencil on paper laid down on paperboard. Pinholes, possibly the artist's at all four corners. Surface in generally good condition, aside from fading to wash throughout resultant of exposure to light. Original pigment visible at extreme edges under mat.
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