Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Day Auction
Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. and Carol D. Chinn
Henry Moore
Four Sleeping Children, Page from Shelter Sketchbook
Auction Closed
November 15, 03:40 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. and Carol D. Chinn
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Four Sleeping Children, Page from Shelter Sketchbook
signed Moore and dated 41 (lower left); indistinctly inscribed Figure on bunk (upper centre)
pencil, pastel, wax crayon and watercolour on paper
unframed (sheet): 20 by 16cm.; 8 by 6¼in.
framed: 42 by 35cm.; 16½ by 13¾in.
Executed in 1941.
The present work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as HMF 1751.
Galerie Bayeler, Basel, 1969
Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, 1972, where acquired by the present owner
Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940 - 1949, Vol. 3, The Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham and London, 2001, no. AG40 - 41.175 HMF 1751, illustrated p. 72
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