Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1996)

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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1996)

Three Women and a Child

signed and dated lower left Moore 44, watercolour, pen and indian ink, wax crayon and pastel over pencil on paper
14½ x 18 7/8in. (37 x 48cm.)

Executed in 1944

Provenance

F.E. McWilliam, London (acquired circa 1943 while his wife was a guest of Henry Moore at Much Hadham)

Literature

R. Melville, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, no. 326 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

The British sculptor, F. E. McWilliam, was born in 1909 at Banbridge, County Down, Ireland, and studied drawing at the Slade School, working thereafter in Paris. He began to work as a sculptor in 1933 and it was during this period that he met Henry Moore who was to be become a close friend. From the late 1930s McWilliam exhibited with the English Surrealist group at the London Gallery.

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