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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Henry Moore

Women Winding Wool

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October 21, 06:15 PM GMT

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150,000 - 250,000 USD

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120,000 USD

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Henry Moore

1898 – 1986


Women Winding Wool

signed Moore and dated 49 (lower left)

wax crayon and watercolor on paper

13 ¾ by 25 in. 

34.8 by 63.6 cm.

Executed in 1949.

Curt Valentin, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1951)

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pope, Washington, D.C.

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1962

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Collected by Yale Alumni, May - June 1960, no. 204, p. 196, illustrated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, August - September 1963

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in a Changing World: 1884-1964: Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection, May 1964 - March 1965, no. 46

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Drawings from the Museum Collection, October 1966 - May 1967

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, June - November 1967

London, Tate Gallery, Henry Moore, July - September 1968, no. 215

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, British Drawings, March - May 1977

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Henry Moore: Sculptures et dessins, May - August 1977, no. 212

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Iwaki City, Fukushima, Shimin Art Gallery Museum; Kanazawa City, Ishikawa, Prefectural Museum; Kumamoto Municipal Museum; Tokyo, Seibu Gallery and London, Tate Gallery, The Drawings of Henry Moore, November - December 1977 (Toronto); January - February 1978 (Fukushima); February - March 1978 (Ishikawa); April 1978 (Tokyo) and June - August 1978 (London), no. 218, p. 121, illustrated; p. 129 (Tate)

Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and London, The British Museum, A Century of Modern Drawing from The Museum of Modern Art: 1881-1981, October - December 1982 (Cleveland); January - April 1983 (Boston); June - September 1983 (London), no. 131, fig. 85, illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Moore: 60 Years of His Art, May 1983 - September 1983, p. 69

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sculptors' Drawings, April - September 1986

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Henry Moore, September - December 1988, no. 171, pp. 155, illustrated; p. 256

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection, March - May 1989

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern British Drawings: A Selection from the Collection, June - September 1994

Dallas Museum of Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Henry Moore Retrospective, February - May 2001 (Dallas); June - September 2001 (San Francisco); October 2001 - January 2002 (Washington D.C.), no. 182, p. 185, illustrated

Athens, Gagosian, Henry Moore and Greece, September - October 2024

Paris, Gagosian, Moore and Malaparte: Rhythm and Form, January - March 2025

Herbert Read, Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, vol. II, London, 1965, pl. 87, illustrated; p. 325

Kenneth Clark, Henry Moore Drawings, New York, 1974, pl. 242, illustrated

Ann Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940-49, vol. III, London, 1994, no. AG 49.13, p. 292, illustrated