Lot 245
  • 245

Henry Moore

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henry Moore
  • WOMAN KNITTING
  • signed Moore (lower right); titled on the reverse
  • pastel, watercolour, ballpoint pen and pencil on paper

  • 18.3 by 17.2cm., 7 1/4 by 6 3/4 in.

Provenance

Raymond Spencer Company, England
Abraham & Sidney Waintrob, USA

Literature

Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1982-1983, London, 1994, vol. 6, no. AG 82.135, illustrated p. 49

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, secured in the mount in all four corners with picture corners. Apart from a vertical flattened crease running parallel to the right edge, intrinsic to the artist's process, this work is in good original condition. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration.
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