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PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Woman in an Underground Shelter Feeding a Child
Details
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Woman in an Underground Shelter Feeding a Child
signed 'Moore.' (lower right), inscribed 'Woman in Underground Shelter - feeding child.' (along the upper edge)
watercolour, coloured crayon, white chalk, ink and pencil on paper
11 7⁄8 x 9 ¼ in. (30 x 23.6 cm.)
Executed in 1941.
Woman in an Underground Shelter Feeding a Child
signed 'Moore.' (lower right), inscribed 'Woman in Underground Shelter - feeding child.' (along the upper edge)
watercolour, coloured crayon, white chalk, ink and pencil on paper
11 7⁄8 x 9 ¼ in. (30 x 23.6 cm.)
Executed in 1941.
Provenance
Purchased by William MacQuitty, London, at the 1944 exhibition.
Sydney Box, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1961, lot 175.
Joan and Lester Avnet, Long Island.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1965, lot 184.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1965.
Mr and Mrs Arthur J. Kobacker, Columbus.
Their sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 December 1970, lot 66.
with B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, where purchased by Maurice and Muriel Fulton in August 1975.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2015, lot 1077, where purchased by the present owner.
Sydney Box, London.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1961, lot 175.
Joan and Lester Avnet, Long Island.
Their sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1965, lot 184.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1965.
Mr and Mrs Arthur J. Kobacker, Columbus.
Their sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 December 1970, lot 66.
with B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, where purchased by Maurice and Muriel Fulton in August 1975.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2015, lot 1077, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-1949, Vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, pp. 86-87, no. AG 41.28, HMF 1827, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Artists of Fame and of Promise, Part II, August 1944, no. 21.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, September - October 1962, p. 28, no. 43, illustrated.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, September - October 1962, p. 28, no. 43, illustrated.
Offerto da
Pippa Jacomb
Head of Evening Sale