Lot 94
  • 94

Henry Moore, O.M., C.H.

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henry Moore OM, CH
  • Standing Figure - Architectural Background
  • signed and dated 79
  • charcoal, watercolour, collaged photograph, chalk, ink and gouache
  • 25.5 by 17.5cm.; 10 by 7in.

Provenance

Fischer Fine Art Ltd, London
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Sale: Sotheby's, London,  20 October 1999

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Henry Moore, Drawings, 1969-1979, 1979-1980, no.107;
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century, 25 February - 27 May, 2001

Literature

Ann Garrould, Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1977-81, Lund Humphries, London, 1994, vol.5, no.79.97, illustrated;
Dorothy Kosinski, Henry Moore, Sculpting the 20th Century, Yale University Press, 2001, London and New Haven, p.249, no.197, illustrated.

Condition

Executed on wove paper. The work undulates slightly. Otherwise it appears to be in its original condition. Under glass and held in a black wooden frame with a cream mount. Unexamined out of its frame.
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