HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Seated Figures, c.1948
Gouache, brush and grey wash, coloured wax crayons and
brush and pen and India ink on paper laid down on card
Signed and dated 'Moore '48', lower right
29.2 x 24.2 cm (11 ½ x 9 ½ in)
Provenance
The Leicester Galleries (Ernest, Brown & Phillips, Ltd.), London.
Private collection, USA
Christie's, London, 21 May 1965, lot 187.
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles (by 1966)
Private Collection, The Ducommun Family (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent
Christie's, New York, May 13, 2016, Lot 49
Private Collector, UK
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries (Ernest, Brown & Phillips, Ltd.),
Catalogue of the Exhibitions of Living Irish Art, New Sculpture and
Drawings by Henry Moore, May 1951, no. 24
Literature
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, 1940-1949,
Aldershot, 2001, vol. 3, p. 270, no. AG 47-49.53 (illustrated, p. 271)
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