Lot 342
  • 342

HENRY MOORE | Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Reclining Figures

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Henry Moore
  • Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Reclining Figures
  • Signed Moore and dated 39. (lower right)
  • Crayon, ink wash, pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 16 7/8 by 10 in.
  • 42.9 by 25.4 cm
  • Executed in 1939.

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ritchie, Bridgeport
Private Collection, Canada (acquired by 1998)
Jeffrey Loria, New York
Acquired from the above

Literature

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1930-1939, vol. 2, London, 1998, no. AG 39-40.27, illustrated p. 236 

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on buff-colored wove paper. The work is hinged to a mount at two places along the top edge of its verso. The sheet is slightly undulating, notably in the upper register. There is a faint matte stain running around all four edges. The sheet is slightly time struck.
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