Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)

Study for 'Kingcups'

Details

Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)
Study for 'Kingcups'
coloured chalks on tracing paper
15 x 8 in (38.1 x 20.3 cm.)

Provenance

Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty, and by descent until Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 6 October 1980, lot 61.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 27 October 1983, lot 242, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

R. Asleson, Albert Moore, London, 2000, pp. 222 (n. 29), 226 (n. 158).

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Lot Essay

Kingcups (1883, York City Art Gallery) demonstrates Moore's rarely-illustrated interest in movement, first seen in studies for Battledore and Shuttlecock (c. 1868-70, see Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Victorian & Albert Museum, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and Follow My Leader (c. 1871, York City Art Gallery). According to his biographer Alfred Lys Baldry, Moore demanded much from his model 'who for hours in succession clambered on to and jumped off a table' (A.L. Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, 1894, p. 84).

See lot 1 for biographical information about Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty.

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