Lot 196
  • 196

HENRY MOORE | Drawing for Sculpture: Reclining Figures

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Drawing for Sculpture: Reclining Figures
  • signed Moore (lower left)
  • pen and brush and ink, chalk and wash on paper
  • 38 by 55.9cm., 15 by 22in.
  • Executed circa 1933.

Provenance

Dorsky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Wichita, Wichita Art Museum, Henry Moore at the Wichita Art Museum, 1978, n.n.

Literature

Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, Aldershot, 1998, vol. II, no. AG 33.2, illustrated p. 83

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and T-hinged to the mount on the upper edges of the verso. The upper and right edges of the sheet are lightly deckled, and there are artist pinholes at all four corners. The sheet is time-stained, and there are scattered spots of foxing. There is some slight discolouration in places along the lower edge possibly due to a previous mounting. The sheet is slightly undulating, and there is a flattened crease to the page along the centre left edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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