Henry Moore
Women Winding Wool, 1948
Pencil, ink, watercolour, crayon, and coloured chalk on paper
53 x 60.5 cm (20 ⅞ x 23 ⅞ in)
Signed and dated 'Moore / 48.', lower left
Provenance
Redfern Gallery, London
Mrs Ian Farquhar
Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 1962, lot 168
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, acquired from the above
Thence by descent
Osborne Samuel, London
Literature
H. Read (intro.), Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, Vol. 1, New York, 1949, pl. 244b
D. Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculptures and Drawings 1921-1948, Vol. 1, London, 1957, p. 265, ill.
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 354, pl. 379
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, Vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, p. 283, no. AG 48.23, HMF 2495, ill.
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Watercolours and Drawings by Oskar Kokoschka, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, September – October 1962, no. 50
