Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation Archive as number 2388c, as page 17 from sketchbook 1944.
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Six seated Women, four holding Children
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Six seated Women, four holding Children
signed 'Moore' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, pen and ink, wax crayon and pencil on paper
11 x 8½ in. (28 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1943
Six seated Women, four holding Children
signed 'Moore' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, pen and ink, wax crayon and pencil on paper
11 x 8½ in. (28 x 21 cm.)
Executed circa 1943
Provenance
Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York.
Marina and Willy Staehelin-Peyer; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1997, lot 424.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Marina and Willy Staehelin-Peyer; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1997, lot 424.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Please note that the Henry Moore Foundation has suggested that this work was executed in 1944, and not as stated in the catalogue. They have also added the following provenance:
Dennis Lennon.
James Kirkman, London, 1983.
Lillian Heidenberg, New York, 1983.
Please also note the following additional literature:
A. Garrould, Henry Moore Drawings, London, 1988 (illustrated pl. 131).
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore. Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, no. AG 44.4 HMF 2388c, p. 210 (illustrated p. 211).
Dennis Lennon.
James Kirkman, London, 1983.
Lillian Heidenberg, New York, 1983.
Please also note the following additional literature:
A. Garrould, Henry Moore Drawings, London, 1988 (illustrated pl. 131).
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore. Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, no. AG 44.4 HMF 2388c, p. 210 (illustrated p. 211).