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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Henry Moore

Drawing for Sculpture: Reclining Figures

Auction Closed

March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection 

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Drawing for Sculpture: Reclining Figures


signed Moore and dated 33. (lower right)

pen and ink, brush and ink and ink wash on paper

55.5 by 38 cm. 21 ¾ by 15 in.

Framed: 77 by 58 cm. 30 ¼ by 22 ¾ in.

Executed in 1933. 

Sotheby’s, London, 1 November 1967, lot 178

Redfern Gallery, London

Private Collection (acquired from the above on 23 February 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Ann Garould, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1930-1939, vol. II, London, 2001, no. AG33.5-49.31, HMF 986, p. 84, illustrated