Henry Moore
Shelter Drawing: Four Sleeping Children
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Four Sleeping Children, Page from Shelter Sketchbook
signed Moore and dated 41 (lower left); indistinctly inscribed Figure on bunk (upper centre)
pencil, pastel, wax crayon and watercolour on paper
unframed (sheet): 20 by 16 cm. 8 by 6¼ in.
framed: 42 by 35 cm. 16½ by 13¾ in.
Executed in 1941.
The present work is registered with the Henry Moore Foundation as HMF 1751.
Galerie Bayeler, Basel, 1969
Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, 1972, where acquired by the present owner
Ann Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1940 - 1949, Vol. 3, The Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham and London, 2001, no. AG40 - 41.175 HMF 1751, illustrated p. 72
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