Live Auction 7953Impressionist/ModernWorks on Paper
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Lot 289 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Mort de Mira

Closed10 February 2011

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GBP 46,850

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Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Mort de Mira
signed and dated 'Moore 50' (lower right) and inscribed 'Mort de Mira' (lower centre)
gouache, wax crayon, watercolour and pencil on paper
14 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (37.8 x 28.2 cm.)
Executed in 1950

Galerie Berggruen, Paris (no. 2891).
Anonymous sale, Finarte, Milan, 11 December 1973, lot 87.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 25 June 2008, lot 215.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This drawing is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation Archives under no. HMF 2591a.

This drawing comes from the disbanded Prométhée sketchbook, executed by Moore circa 1949-1950. Moore was asked in December 1949 to illustrate Goethe's Prometheus in a French translation by André Gide. He started to work staight away and carried on into early 1950.