Sale: 468 / Modern Art I, June 09. 2018 in Munich Lot 734

 

734
Henry Moore
Untitled (Drawing for sculpture), 1936.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 24,300

(incl. surcharge)
Untitled (Drawing for sculpture). 1936.
Charcoal drawing and Gouache on yellowish paper.
Signed and dated in lower right. Firm yellowish wove paper, firmly laid on Japon. 38 x 55.3 cm (14.9 x 21.7 in) , size of sheet.

PROVENANCE: Leicester Galleries, London\line Privatsammlung Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany.

EXHIBITION: Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, Leicester Galleries, London 1936.

My drawings are done mainly ..as a means of of generating ideas for sculpture, tapping oneself fo the initial idea; and as a way of sorting out ideas and developing them"
Henry Moore in: The Sculptor Speaks, 1937




734
Henry Moore
Untitled (Drawing for sculpture), 1936.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 24,300

(incl. surcharge)