Lot Essay
This is an unusual subject matter for Moore and may have been inspired by another artist's work. The incomplete inscription may refer to a sleep walker.
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Poetess on stage at the end of reading her poems
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Poetess on stage at the end of reading her poems
signed 'Moore' (lower left), indistinctly inscribed 'Sleep w...' (lower right), and inscribed again 'Poetess, on stage at the end/of reading her poems' (on the reverse)
brown felt-tipped pen, charcoal, wax crayon and watercolour on paper
10 x 10½in. (25.3 x 26.7cm.)
Poetess on stage at the end of reading her poems
signed 'Moore' (lower left), indistinctly inscribed 'Sleep w...' (lower right), and inscribed again 'Poetess, on stage at the end/of reading her poems' (on the reverse)
brown felt-tipped pen, charcoal, wax crayon and watercolour on paper
10 x 10½in. (25.3 x 26.7cm.)
Literature
A. Garrould (ed), Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1982-83 Volume 6, London, 1994, p.27, no. AG82.37 (illus)
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