Seated Figures

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Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Seated Figures
signed and dated 'Moore 55' (lower right)
watercolour, wash, white gouache, coloured crayon, wax crayon, pen and ink and pencil and paper
10¾ x 7¼ in. (27.7 x 18.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1937 and re-worked in 1955

Provenance

Galerie Berggruen, Paris.
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art (on loan to the museum from April 1982 to February 2001).
Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, 1950-76, vol. IV, London, 2003, no. AG. 55.7 & HMF 2880 (illustrated p. 86).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Berggruen, Henry Moore: Sculptures et Dessins, 1957, p. 7.
London, Fischer Fine Art, Henry Moore 1898-1996: Sculpture and Drawings, 1988-1989, cat. 23.

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Lot Essay

During the mid-1950s, Moore took a number of 1930s sketchbook pages, mostly pencil studies, which he redrew in a mixture of other media. The present lot derives most certainly from a 1937 sketchbook and was reworked and signed later in 1955.

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