Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)

Study of a dancing girl for the drawing Design for a Picture

Details

Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)
Study of a dancing girl for the drawing Design for a Picture
black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper
11.3/8 x 7 in. (28.8 x 18.4 cm.)

Literature

Alfred Lys Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, 1894, p. 90, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The present drawing corresponds to the figure of a dancing girl on the right-hand side of the drawing entitled Design for a picture, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and once belonged to Lord Leighton. The composition was dated by Moore's biographer, Alfred Lys Baldry, to the early 1870s and like several of Moore's ambitious projects of this date was not realised as a finished picture.

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