Lot 102
  • 102

Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.
  • Four Colour Etchings: Eight Sculptural Ideas; Seated Mother and Child; Seven Sculptural Ideas I; and Seven Sculptural Ideas II (C. 587-590)
  • Folder of colour etchings with aquatint
  • each sheet: approx. 68.5 by 56.5cm.; 27 by 22 1/4 in.
The complete portfolio, comprising four etchings with aquatint printed in colours, 1981, each signed in pencil and numbered 17/50 (there were also 25 Artist's proofs), on Arches wove paper, with the title and justification pages, printed by James Collyer and John Crossley, London, with their blindstamp, published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd., for The Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham, contained in the original cloth-covered portfolio

Condition

The full sheets (each with a deckle edge at left and right side), in good condition, minor imperfections to individual sheets include: C. 587 a small area of pale discoloration at upper left sheet edge verso. The cloth-covered portfolio with minor scuff marks.
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