Henry Moore 1898-1986
Moore has been acknowledged as one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century and as the most celebrated British artist of his time. He trained at Leeds School of Art before gaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. By the 1930s Moore was already recognized as the leading avant-garde sculptor in England but it was his war drawings that brought him to the attention of the British public.
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His wider reputation was assured in 1948 when he won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale and from then on came public commissions from all over the world. Moore started printmaking in 1931, and in 1958 met the master lithographer Stanley Jones at the Curwen Press with whom he continued to make prints until the end of his life in 1986.
Lithograph, 1971
Signed
Edition of 75
Paper size: 22.9 × 30.2cm
£2250 Framed
Signed in pencil original lithograph in 3 colours. A printer's proof aside from the main edition of 75.
Printed at Curwen Prints, London.
Published by Société Internationale d'Art XX siècle, Paris, 1971.
An unsigned, unnumbered edition of 5000 of this lithograph printed by Mourlot Frères was included in XX siècle special issue, Panorama 71, XXXVI, No. 36
Blind stamped from the archive of Curwen Master Printer Stanley Jones. Jones worked closely with Moore at the Curwen Press from the late fifties for over 20 years.