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Prometheus Defiant
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Henry Moore, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Prometheus Defiant
signed 'Moore' (lower centre), inscribed 'Prometheus Defiant. Section/lines' (upper left), inscribed again 'Prometheus defiant' (upper right), inscribed again 'Prometheus defiant.' (centre left)
pencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour and gouache
11 3/8 x 9¼ in. (28.9 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed in 1949-50.
Prometheus Defiant
signed 'Moore' (lower centre), inscribed 'Prometheus Defiant. Section/lines' (upper left), inscribed again 'Prometheus defiant' (upper right), inscribed again 'Prometheus defiant.' (centre left)
pencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour and gouache
11 3/8 x 9¼ in. (28.9 x 23.5 cm.)
Executed in 1949-50.
Provenance
The artist's family.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Henry Moore, London, Waddington Galleries, 1985, n.p., no. 36, illustrated.
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, pp. 298-299, no. AG 49-50.11, HMF 2556, illustrated.
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Vol. 3, Much Hadham, 2001, pp. 298-299, no. AG 49-50.11, HMF 2556, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Henry Moore, September 1985, no. 36.
Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation, Moore and Mythology, April - September 2007, no. 29.
Much Hadham, Henry Moore Foundation, Moore and Mythology, April - September 2007, no. 29.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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