Lot Essay
There is a pencil sketch of a reclining figure on the reverse of this work, inscribed Man & Woman on Beach in ballpoint pen. This work is recorded with the Henry Moore Foundation as no. HMF 81 (376).
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Man and Woman on Beach
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Man and Woman on Beach
signed 'Moore' (lower right); titled 'Man + Woman on Beach' (on the reverse)
pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, watercolour wash, chinagraph, gouache on white wove paper
9 1/8 x 12 5/8in. (23.2 x 32cm.)
Executed circa 1981
Man and Woman on Beach
signed 'Moore' (lower right); titled 'Man + Woman on Beach' (on the reverse)
pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, watercolour wash, chinagraph, gouache on white wove paper
9 1/8 x 12 5/8in. (23.2 x 32cm.)
Executed circa 1981
Provenance
Raymond Spencer Company
Grant Fine Art, Newcastle, Co. Down
Pym Gallery, London
Fischer Fine Art, London 1985
Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahara (Australia)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Grant Fine Art, Newcastle, Co. Down
Pym Gallery, London
Fischer Fine Art, London 1985
Rex Irwin Gallery, Woollahara (Australia)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Ed. A. Garrould, Henry Moore Complete Drawings, Vol. 5, 1977-81, London 1994, no. 81.349r, p. 239 (recto and verso illustrated p. 239).