Lot 142AR
Henry Moore O.M., C.H.(British, 1898-1986)Mother and Child with Wave Background I, from 80th Anniversary Portfolio
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Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)
Mother and Child with Wave Background I, from 80th Anniversary Portfolio (Cramer 447)
Lithograph in colours, 1976, on wove paper, signed and inscribed 'E/C' in pencil, an épreuve commerce aside of the edition of 50, printed by Curwen Prints Ltd., published in 1978 by Orde Levinson, London, with full margins, unframed
Image 175 x 264mm (6 7/8 x 10 3/8in)
Sheet 410 x 533mm (16 1/8 x 21in)
Lithograph in colours, 1976, on wove paper, signed and inscribed 'E/C' in pencil, an épreuve commerce aside of the edition of 50, printed by Curwen Prints Ltd., published in 1978 by Orde Levinson, London, with full margins, unframed
Image 175 x 264mm (6 7/8 x 10 3/8in)
Sheet 410 x 533mm (16 1/8 x 21in)
Footnotes
'This is the mother and child idea - at the seaside with the waves coming in. In an actual drawing alterations are final - you can only try to go back to what it was before by remembering and rubbing it out- whereas an advantage in lithography is that colours can be easily changed because there is a separate plate for each. Here was this trial showing how different a work looks if you change the colour - there's a different mood in each case.'
— Henry Moore
Literature
Orde Levinson, Orde's conversation with Henry Moore, Song of the Wild Swan Ltd., Oxford, 2014, p.52.
Provenance
An Important Private Collection, UK.