Henry Moore - Family Groups, 1944

Henry Moore

Family Groups, 1944
Pencil, wax crayon, watercolour, pen & ink on paper
20.3 x 16.5 cm (8 x 6 ½ in)
Signed & dated 'Moore/44' lower right, inscribed 'Family Group' upper centre & inscribed '21' upper right.

From the Rescue Sketchbook, page 21. The early part of this sketchbook contains various studies for textile designs and family groups which may date to 1943. The latter part to preliminary sketches for The Rescue, a melodrama by Edward Sackville-West published in 1945 including reproductions of Moore’s drawings.

Private Collection, UK, 1954
James Kirkman, London
Piccadilly Gallery, London

Osborne Samuel, London

Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings, vol.3, 1940-49, Aldershot, 2001, no.AG44.20, HMF 2241a, p.214-215