HENRY MOORE | FOUR FAMILY GROUPS

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May 18, 04:47 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of Robert A. Bernhard, a Descendant of Mayer Lehman

HENRY MOORE

(1898 - 1986)

FOUR FAMILY GROUPS

Signed Moore and dated 44 (lower left)

Watercolor, colored crayon and pencil on paper

9 by 7 in. (22.9 by 17.8 cm)

Framed: 16⅛ by 13¼ in. (41 by 33.7 cm)

Executed in 1944.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Henry Moore Foundation under number 2199.

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1969)

Noah Goldsworthy

Paul Bianchini, New York

Acquired from the above on October 25, 1972

David Mitchinson, Henry Moore: Unpublished Drawings, Turin, 1971, pl. 154l, illustrated n.p.

John Hedgecoe, A Monumental Vision: The Sculpture of Henry Moore, London, 1998, n.n., illustrated p. 107

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. 3, London, 2001, no. AG 43-44.8, illustrated p. 203