PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION
Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Seated Figures

Price realised USD 437,500
Estimate
USD 400,000 – USD 600,000
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Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Seated Figures

Price realised USD 437,500
Closed: 14 May 2021
Price realised USD 437,500
Closed: 14 May 2021
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Seated Figures
signed and dated ‘Moore 42.’ (lower right)
colored wax crayons, inkwash, brush and pen and black ink and pencil on board
15 1/8 x 20 in. (38.4 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1942
Provenance
Alice Pleydell-Bouverie, New York.
Private collection; sale, Christie’s, London, 20 March 1970, lot 156.
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, South Africa (acquired from the above, circa 1975).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
H. Read, intro., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1944, p. xiv (illustrated prior to signature, pl. 194b; titled Women in a Shelter and with inverted dimensions).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, 1940-1949, Aldershot, 2001, vol. 3, p. 108, no. AG 42.16 (illustrated, p. 109).
Exhibited
Munich, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Henry Moore, 1961-1971, October-November 1971, no. 153.

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