Group of Draped Standing Figures

Prints and Drawings

1942

Henry Spencer Moore
English, 1898-1986

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Henry Moore
Title: Group of Draped Standing Figures
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1942–1986
Medium: Pen and black ink and black crayon, with brush and gray wash, graphite and touches of red conte crayon, heightened with white gouache, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 39.1 × 56.5 cm (15 7/16 × 22 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mrs. Potter Palmer Sundry
Reference Number: 1945.2
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London

Herbert Read, Henry Moore (London, 1946), no. 221 b (ill.).
Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings (New York, 1946), no. 16 (ill.).

New York, Curt Valentin, “Drawings by Henry Moore,” 1943.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings: Old and New,” 1946, p. 21, cat. 37, pl. XXXIII, cat. by Carl Schniewind.
London, Tate Gallery, “Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore,” 1951, cat. 149.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Henry Moore,” 1959, cat. 63 (ill.).
Chicago, Arts Club, “Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore in Chicago,” 1960.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916-1966,” 1966, cat. 83 (ill.).
Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, “Drawings of Henri Moore,” 1977, cat. 195, pp. 123-124, (ill.); traveled to London, Tate Gallery.

The artist to the Curt Valentin Gallery, New York by 1943 [per letter in curatorial file]; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.

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