Live Auction 14233Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)
Lot 2

Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)

Study for 'Kingcups'

Closed13 December 2017

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GBP 5,250

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Albert Joseph Moore, A.R.W.S. (1841-1893)
Study for 'Kingcups'
coloured chalks on tracing paper
15 x 8 in (38.1 x 20.3 cm.)

Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty, and by descent until Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 6 October 1980, lot 61.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 27 October 1983, lot 242, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Kingcups (1883, York City Art Gallery) demonstrates Moore's rarely-illustrated interest in movement, first seen in studies for Battledore and Shuttlecock (c. 1868-70, see Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Victorian & Albert Museum, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and Follow My Leader (c. 1871, York City Art Gallery). According to his biographer Alfred Lys Baldry, Moore demanded much from his model 'who for hours in succession clambered on to and jumped off a table' (A.L. Baldry, Albert Moore: His Life and Works, 1894, p. 84).

See lot 1 for biographical information about Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty.