Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction
Henry Moore, R.A.
Standing Figures
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore, R.A.
1898 - 1976
Standing Figures
signed Moore and dated 40 (lower left); signed Henry Moore and titled (on a piece of paper attached to the reverse of the frame)
chalk, crayon, pencil, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
unframed (sheet): 28 by 38.5cm.; 11 by 15¼in.
framed: 48.5 by 58cm.; 19 by 22¾in.
Executed in 1940.
The work is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation archives as HMF 1511.
Private Collection, Switzerland, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2016
Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, 1940-1949, Vol. III, Lund Humphries, London, 2001, no. AG 40.38 (HMF 1511), illustrated p. 31
Kenneth Clark, Henry Moore, Drawings, Thames and Hudson, London, 1974, no. 120, illustrated