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Henry Moore

Two Women Winding Wool

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986


Two Women Winding Wool

signed Moore and dated 42 (lower right)

watercolour, ink wash, charcoal, wax crayon, pen and ink, pencil and gouache on paper

37 by 49.5 cm. 14½ by 19¾ in.

Executed in 1942.


The present work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as HMF 2084.

Louis Stern, New York

Kleeman Gallery, New York

Purchased from the above in 1948 by Private Collection

Private Collection (by descent)

Acquired by the present owner, 2022

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Contemporary British Artists, 27 March - April 1945, no. 5

New York, MoMA., Henry Moore, 17 December 1946 - 16 March 1947, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 71, with tour to Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, and San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings 1921-1969, London, Thames and Hudson, 1970, no. 292

Henry Moore, Portfolio, Washington D.C., 1945, illustrated in black and white

Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Volume 3, 1940-49, London and Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation and Lund Humphries, HMF 2084, p. 169