Sale 6906
London
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3 June 2004
Price realised
GBP 2,151
Estimate
Henry Moore, R.A., R.W.S. (1831-1895) Among the Peat, Skye signed and dated 'Sep 1st/1885/H Moore.' (lower right) pencil and watercolour 10 x 13½ in. (25.5 x 34.3 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs Frank M. Luker, Sidcup (according to a label on the reverse). with Abbott and Holder, London, 1977.
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Exhibited
York, Corporation Art Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by the Moore Family, 1912, no. 29.
A watercolour of the 1880s, showing the bolder and more impressionistic style that Henry Moore adopted at this period.
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