Study for 'Kingcups'

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.