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HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)

Lot 172
19.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 172 | HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
HENRY MOORE (1898-1986)
Ideas for Mother and Child Sculptures
signed and dated 'Moore 32' (lower right)
pen and India ink and inkwash on paper
22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1932




Provenance

Anon. sale, Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 21 November 1959, lot 569.
Anon. sale, Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, 29 May 1964, lot 876.
Obelisk Gallery, Inc., Boston (by 1967).
Sidney and Esther Goldberg, Boston (probably acquired from the above).
By descent from the above to the late owners.



Literature

R. Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, London, 1970, p. 341 (illustrated, pl. 79).
G. di San Lazzarro, ed., Homage to Henry Moore: Special Issue of the XX Siècle Review, New York, 1972, p. 103 (illustrated).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1930-1939, London, 1998, vol. 2, p. 64, no. AG 32.37 (illustrated).
The Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue (www.henry-moore.org), no. HMF 923 (illustrated; accessed March 2026).



Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (on loan, 1985-October 1986).
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