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
Shelter Drawing: Four Sleeping Children
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Geoffrey M. and Carol D. Chinn
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Shelter Drawing: Four Sleeping Children
signed Moore and dated 41 (lower left); 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.
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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