Lot 204
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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Mort de Mira

Details
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Mort de Mira
signed and dated 'Moore/50' (lower right), inscribed 'MORT DE MIRA' (lower centre)
pencil, black and coloured crayon, watercolour and red ink
12¾ x 8½ in. (32.4 x 21.6 cm.)
This work is recorded by the Henry Moore Foundation as HMF 2591a.
Provenance
with Galerie Berggruen, Paris (no. 2891).
Anonymous sale; Finarte, Milan, 11 December 1973, lot 87.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 2008, lot 215, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Fantastico Novecento ad Arona da Picasso a Kandinsky, Arona, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Villa Ponti, 2003, p. 37, illustrated.
Exhibited
Arona, Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Villa Ponti, Fantastico Novecento ad Arona da Picasso a Kandinsky, July - November 2003.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The present work was part of Moore's disbanded Prométhée sketchbook, executed in 1949-1950. Moore was asked in December 1949 to illustrate Goethe's Prometheus in a French translation by André Gide. He started immediately and continued into early 1950.

This work closely relates to Death of Mira (HMF2591), illustrated in A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Vol. 3, Aldershot, 2001, AG 50.20, p. 309.

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