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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Henry Moore

Study for Sculpture

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Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Study for Sculpture

signed Moore and dated 34 (lower right)

watercolour, chalk and pen and ink and ink wash on paper

27.3 by 37.3 cm. 10¾ by 14¾ in.

Framed: 47.2 by 56.2 cm. 18⅝ by 22⅛ in.

Executed in 1934.

Marlborough Fine Art, London

Private Collection, USA

M. Knoedler and Co., New York

Coe Kerr Gallery, New York

Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in May 1982 by the present owner

Kenneth Clark, Henry Moore Drawings, New York, 1974, pl. 74, pp. 89 and 316, illustrated

Ann Garrould, Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1930-39, vol. 2, London, 1998, no. AG 34.43, (HMF 1095), p. 121, illustrated

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, 1962, no. 33, illustrated (catalogued as ink and wash)