Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henry Moore
Ideas for Sculpture
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Ideas for Sculpture
signed Moore and dated 48 (lower left); numbered 44 and indistinctly inscribed (on the verso)
watercolour, pen and ink, crayon and pencil on paper
29 by 24 cm. 11 ½ by 9 ½ in.
Framed: 49 by 40.5 cm. 19 ¼ by 16 in.
Executed in 1948.
Leicester Galleries, London
Private Collection (acquired from the above 9 May 1952)
Thence by descent to the present owners
London, Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise, July 1949
Ann Garould, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940 – 1949, vol. III, London, 2001, no. AG 47-49.11, HMF 2406, p. 261, illustrated