HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

Reclining Figures

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HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Reclining Figures
signed and dated 'Moore 39' (lower right)
gouache, watercolor, colored wax crayons, pen and India ink and pencil on paper
10 x 16 3/4 in. (25.4 x 42.7 cm.)
Executed in 1939

Curt Valentin, New York.
Angele Celestine Hamendt (Mrs. Benjamin Phillip Watson), New York (by 1946 and until at least 1968).
New Art Centre, London.
Private collection, Italy.
Private collection, London; sale, Christie's, London, 3 April 1990, lot 196.
Private collection, London (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, Geneva; sale, Christie's, London, 29 November 1995, lot 245.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (by 1998).
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.

H. Read, intro., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, London, 1944 (illustrated, pl. 150a; titled Drawing for Sculpture in Metal).
D. Sylvester, ed., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, London, 1957, vol. I, p. 211 (illustrated; titled Ideas for Sculpture in Metal).
R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 347, no. 216 (illustrated; titled Ideas for Sculpture in Metal).
G.C. Argan, Henry Moore, Milan, 1971, pp. 80 and 224, no. 62 (titled Disegno per sculture in metallo).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, 1930-1939, London, 1998, vol. 2, p. 232, no. AG 39-40.15 (illustrated).

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Henry Moore, April 1946, no. 13.
London, The Tate Gallery, Henry Moore, May-July 1951, p. 15, no. 102 (illustrated, pl. 32; titled Ideas for Sculpture in Metal).
London, The Tate Gallery, Henry Moore, July-September 1968, no. 189 (illustrated, pl. 34; titled Ideas for Sculpture in Metal).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century, May-June 1998, no. 12.

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