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Property from the Descendants of James Johnson Sweeney
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Drawing for Sculpture in Wood and String
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mother and Child: Drawing for Sculpture in Wood and String
signed and dated 'Moore 40' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, colored wax crayons, pen and ink and pencil on paper
11 x 14 7/8 in. (27.9 x 37.8 cm.)
Executed in 1940
Mother and Child: Drawing for Sculpture in Wood and String
signed and dated 'Moore 40' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor, colored wax crayons, pen and ink and pencil on paper
11 x 14 7/8 in. (27.9 x 37.8 cm.)
Executed in 1940
Provenance
Buccholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), New York (by 1949).
James Johnson Sweeney, New York (acquired from the above, 1979).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
James Johnson Sweeney, New York (acquired from the above, 1979).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
C. Valentin, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, New York, 1949, no. 162b (illustrated).
E. Neumann, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, New York, 1965, p. 51, no. 24 (illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 348, no. 241 (illustrated).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, London, 2001, vol. 3, p. 30, no. AG 40.36 (illustrated).
E. Neumann, The Archetypal World of Henry Moore, New York, 1965, p. 51, no. 24 (illustrated).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 348, no. 241 (illustrated).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, London, 2001, vol. 3, p. 30, no. AG 40.36 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Henry Moore: 40 Watercolours and Drawings, 1943, no. 8.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Drawings and One Sculpture by Henry Moore, 1946, no. 26.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore: Retrospective Exhibition, 1946-1947, no. 79.
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery, Drawings and One Sculpture by Henry Moore, 1946, no. 26.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and San Francisco, The Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore: Retrospective Exhibition, 1946-1947, no. 79.