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Lot 146AR

Henry Moore O.M., C.H.
(British, 1898-1986)
Reclining Figure: Distorted

Ending from 20 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

£700 - £1,000

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Henry Moore O.M., C.H. (British, 1898-1986)

Reclining Figure: Distorted (Cramer 509)
Etching, 1979, on Barcham Green wove paper, signed and numbered I/X in pencil, one of ten artist's proofs aside from the edition of 50, printed Michael Rand, London, published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd. for The Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham, 1980, with full margins, unframed

Plate 227 x 281mm (8 7/8 x 11 1/8in)
Sheet 425 x 475mm (16 3/4 x 18 3/4in)

Footnotes

'If you draw well, you can etch well, because it is only using a finerpoint. The technical side of all these things is simple, it is not a problem, you can enjoy them, you can enjoy exploiting them and using their special qualities even to have an inspiration. You can get new ideas that you would not get otherwise. But the real fundamental ideas are based on drawing, and drawing is based on the understanding of three-dimensional form, and that is why sculptors really should be even more concerned with drawing than painters.'
— Henry Moore

Literature
Orde Levinson, Orde's conversation with Henry Moore, Song of the Wild Swan Ltd., Oxford, 2014, p.31.

Provenance
An Important Private Collection, UK.

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