Henry Moore
Six Standing Figures: Ideas for Sculptures (recto), One Seated and Three Standing Figures (verso), 1940
Pencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink
17.5 x 26 cm (6 ⅞ x 10 ¼ in)
Signed 'Moore' and dated '40', lower right; inscribed 'Fawn', verso
Provenance
The Mayor Gallery, London
Christie’s, London, 4 December 1984, lot 285
Piccadilly Gallery, London
Private Collection, New York
Maxwell Davidson, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above 1998)
Osborne Samuel, London
Literature
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings Volume 3 (1940-49), Lund Humphries, London, 2001, AG 40.40, HMF 1512a, p. 31 (ill. b&w)
Exhibited
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Henry Moore: Drawings, Watercolours and Gouaches, 1970, no. 88