Sheep and Two Lambs

Details

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Sheep and Two Lambs
signed 'Moore 81' (lower right)
black ball-point pen on paper
8 x 11 3/8 in. (19.9 x 29 cm.)
Drawn in 1981

Provenance

Waddington Galleries, London.
Leslie Ogden, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.

Literature

A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, vol. 4, 1950-1976, Much Hadham, 2003, no. AG 75-81.36 (illustrated p. 346).

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Lot Essay

The present work stems from the artist's White Notebook, a sketchbook originally containing 48 pages of drawings of landscapes and interiors executed between 1975 and 1981.

Moore first found a subject in sheep in 1972. One of his studios at Much Hadham had a window overlooking a large field grazed by sheep, and the artist found them a ready subject matter. The sheep continued to fascinate Moore over the next ten years, even to the extent that he would recognise which ones he had already drawn: 'I began to recognise the individual sheep over a time, I would know that I'd drawn that one already and that one I hadn't' (H. Moore, Henry Moore, My Ideas, Inspiration and Life as an Artist, London, 1986, p. 192).

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