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Lot Essay
The present lot is being sold by the Sherwin family. Dr Jeffrey Sherwin (1936-2018), a GP and councillor in Leeds, was a champion of the visual arts. He built a friendship with Moore, visiting his studio on a regular basis.
Admirers of Moore’s work are indebted to Dr Sherwin for his instrumental role, as a city councillor, in the creation of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, a dedicated sculpture gallery at the old Leeds City Art Gallery. In 1980, the same year that Moore made Seated Figure: Thin Head, Moore himself laid the foundation stone of the Henry Moore Institute.
In 1986, Leeds City Art Gallery celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, and this first encounter with British Surrealism was transformative for Dr Sherwin. The exhibition inspired a lifetime of collecting Surrealist works for he and his wife Ruth, inspiring his 2014 book, British Surrealism Opened Up. As well as the Dr Jeffrey Sherwin Collection sale at Christie's, London, in January 2020, many works from the collection have formed The Sherwin Family Collection of British Surrealism, which has found its home at The Hepworth Wakefield.
Admirers of Moore’s work are indebted to Dr Sherwin for his instrumental role, as a city councillor, in the creation of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, a dedicated sculpture gallery at the old Leeds City Art Gallery. In 1980, the same year that Moore made Seated Figure: Thin Head, Moore himself laid the foundation stone of the Henry Moore Institute.
In 1986, Leeds City Art Gallery celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, and this first encounter with British Surrealism was transformative for Dr Sherwin. The exhibition inspired a lifetime of collecting Surrealist works for he and his wife Ruth, inspiring his 2014 book, British Surrealism Opened Up. As well as the Dr Jeffrey Sherwin Collection sale at Christie's, London, in January 2020, many works from the collection have formed The Sherwin Family Collection of British Surrealism, which has found its home at The Hepworth Wakefield.