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
You May Also Like
