Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation database under the number 2554a.
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Property from the Collection of Carlton Lake
Christie's is honored to offer the following drawings by Henry Moore from the collection of Carlton Lake, the longtime Paris art critic for The Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Lake also contributed to The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, was curator at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, author of Confessions of a Literary Archeologist and co-author, with Françoise Gilot, of her 1964 memoir, Life with Picasso.
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Settings for Sculpture or Groups of Figures (recto); Untitled (verso)
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Settings for Sculpture or Groups of Figures (recto); Untitled (verso)
titled 'Settings for Sculpture or Groups of Figures' (along the upper edge) and inscribed throughout
watercolor, colored wax crayons and pencil on paper (recto); watercolor and colored wax crayons on paper (verso)
11½ x 9½ in. (29.2 x 24 cm.)
Settings for Sculpture or Groups of Figures (recto); Untitled (verso)
titled 'Settings for Sculpture or Groups of Figures' (along the upper edge) and inscribed throughout
watercolor, colored wax crayons and pencil on paper (recto); watercolor and colored wax crayons on paper (verso)
11½ x 9½ in. (29.2 x 24 cm.)
Provenance
Henri Jonquières, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1952.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1952.
Sale Room Notice
This work is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation database under the number 2554a.
Brought to you by
David Kleiweg de Zwaan