Girl reading, 1947
© The Henry Moore Foundation
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Henry Moore
(British, 1898 - 1986)
Girl reading, 1947
pencil, watercolour, ink and crayon on paper
9.5 x 12.0 cm
signed and dated lower right: Moore 47
Estimate:
$20,000 – $30,000
Provenance
Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London
C.H. Spiers, London
Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1977, lot 186
Piccadilly Gallery, London, 1977
Mathilda and Emanuel M. Terner, Florida USA
J.A. Bauer, New York
Christie's, New York, 10 November 1999, lot 132
Spink-Leger Pictures, London (label attached verso, as ‘Two Seated Figures’)
Private collection, acquired from the above in August 2000
Christie’s, London, 21 June 2016, lot 126
Private collection, Sydney
Literature
Garrould, A., (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Much Hadham, London, 2001, vol. 3, no. AG 47.5, HMF 2393b, pp. 254, 255 (illus.)