Live Auction 1158Modern British And Irish Art Day Sale
Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Lot 204 ANOTHER PROPERTY

Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Mort de Mira

Closed21 November 2013

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GBP 76,900

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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Mort de Mira
signed and dated 'Moore/50' (lower right), inscribed 'MORT DE MIRA' (lower centre)
pencil, black and coloured crayon, watercolour and red ink
12¾ x 8½ in. (32.4 x 21.6 cm.)
This work is recorded by the Henry Moore Foundation as HMF 2591a.

with Galerie Berggruen, Paris (no. 2891).
Anonymous sale; Finarte, Milan, 11 December 1973, lot 87.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 June 2008, lot 215, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work was part of Moore's disbanded Prométhée sketchbook, executed in 1949-1950. Moore was asked in December 1949 to illustrate Goethe's Prometheus in a French translation by André Gide. He started immediately and continued into early 1950.

This work closely relates to Death of Mira (HMF2591), illustrated in A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Vol. 3, Aldershot, 2001, AG 50.20, p. 309.