A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Henry Moore

Family Group

Auction Closed

November 19, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Family Group 

signed Moore and dated 48. (lower right)

colored crayon, pen and ink and watercolor on paper

21 ¾ by 27 ⅛ in.  

53.3 by 68.6 cm.

Executed in 1948.

Curt Valentin, New York (acquired by 1949)

Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1951 and until at least 1960)

Adam Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired by 1985)

Jeffrey H. Loria, New York

The Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired by 1987)

Grob Gallery, London

Pace Gallery, New York

Waddington Galleries, Ltd., London

Acquired from the above on 6 March 2000 by the present owner

Herbert Read, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-48, vol. I, London, 1949, pl. 245a, illustrated 

David Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-48, vol. I, London, 1957, p. 266, illustrated (with incomplete media)

Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, New York, 1960, p. 8, pl. 126, illustrated

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, New York, 1970, no. 383, p. 354 and n.p., illustrated (with incomplete media)

Ann Garrould, Henry Moore Drawings, New York, 1988, no. 145, p. 133, illustrated in color; p. 260

Waddington Galleries, ed., British Art: A Selection from Waddington Galleries, London, 1997, no. 30, illustrated in color

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. 3, London, 2001, no. AG 48.40, p. 287, illustrated

Henry Moore Foundation, ed., Henry Moore: Catalogue Raisonné, no. HMF 2508, https://catalogue.henry-moore.org/objects/9936/family-group?ctx=da0f4ac95d891e979b228099b5068642a4b4842c&idx=62 (accessed 25 October 2024)

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Important XIX & XX Century Works of Art, 1985, no. 11

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Important Works on Paper, 1989, no. 21

New York, The Pace Gallery, Henry Moore: A Sculptor’s Drawings, 1993-94, p. 63