Lot Essay
This drawing is page no. 10 from the Parchment Notebook, 1975, previously known as Notebook 1 (see op.cit., p. 312).
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Two Reclining Figures
Details
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Two Reclining Figures
signed 'Moore' (lower left)
pencil, wax crayon, charcoal, wash, chinagraph and gouache
10 7/8 x 8¾ in. (27.8 x 22.2 cm.)
Executed in 1975.
Two Reclining Figures
signed 'Moore' (lower left)
pencil, wax crayon, charcoal, wash, chinagraph and gouache
10 7/8 x 8¾ in. (27.8 x 22.2 cm.)
Executed in 1975.
Provenance
The artist, and by descent to Mary Moore.
Literature
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1950-76 Volume 4, 1950-76, Aldershot, 2003, p. 314, no. AG 75.10, HMF 75(79), illustrated, and Volume 7, p. 210, illustrated.
Exhibited
Lugano, Galleria Pieter Coray, Henry Moore: Disegni, Sculture, Grafica, April - May 1993, no. 43, p. 48, illustrated.
London, Frith Street Gallery, From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, September - November 1996.
London, Frith Street Gallery, From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, September - November 1996.
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