Lot 123
  • 123

Henry Moore

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Reclining Figure
  • signed Moore and dated 61 (lower right; added at a later date)
  • wax crayon, coloured crayons, watercolour, wash and felt-tip pen on paper
  • 29.1 by 24cm., 11 1/2 by 9 1/2in.

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art, London
Emil Frey, Germany
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, 1962, no. 55
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, 1964, no. 54
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Bürgermeister-Ludwig-Reichert-Haus Stadt, Idee und Wirklichkeit, Handzeichnungen und Aquarelle des 20. Jahrhunderts aus Privatbesitz, 1970
Kiel, Kunsthalle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung eines Kielers, Ausstellung zum 100. Jubilaum der Schleswig-Holseinischen Landesbrandkasse, 1974
Kaiserslautern, Pfalzgalerie, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung F., 1976

Literature

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, 1950-79, Much Hadham, 2003, vol. 4, no. AG 61-62.3, illustrated p. 155

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper and not laid down. The left edge of the sheet is deckled. This work is in overall very good original condition.
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