Henry Moore

Woman Combing Another's Hair: The Toilet

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Woman Combing Another's Hair: The Toilet

signed Moore and dated 44. (lower right)

pen and ink, chalk, colored crayon and gray wash heightened with white on paper

image: 11½ by 11½ in. (28.6 by 29.2 cm.)

sheet: 15 by 12¼ in. (38.3 by 31.2 cm.)

Executed in 1944.

Ian Annakin
Miss Polly Hill, London (acquired by 1946)
Marlborough Replica Handbags , London
Mrs. M. Thorndike
The Piccadilly Gallery, London
Kostia Rodocanachi, Geneva (acquired from the above in January 1974)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in November 1976)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Meaning of Sculpture: Built Round Sculptures and Drawings by Henry Moore (Sent by the British Council) for the Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival, 1952, no. 65, p. 26
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Henry Moore, Figures in Space: Drawings, 1952, no. 72 (titled Two women at their toilet)

Curt Valentin, ed., The Drawings of Henry Moore, New York 1946, pl. 27, illustrated (titled Hair Combing)
Robert Melville, Henry Moore, London 1970, no. 329, p. 352
Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. 3, Much Hadham 2001, no. AG44.92, p. 233, illustrated