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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 30, 2012 | Bonhams | London | 20th Century British and Irish Art | 68 | $****** - ****** | Standing Figures |
Works on Paper
18.1 x 26.6 cm (7.13 x 10.47 in)
ink, crayon and watercolour
signed and dated 'Moore/40' (lower left)
:~The Rita and Taft Schreiber Collection, California, U.S.A.
:~Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Henry Moore in Southern California, 1973~
:~Ann Garrould (Ed.), Henry Moore, Complete Drawings 1940-49, Volume 3, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2001, cat.no.AG 40.5, pp.22-23 (ill.b&w)~~Dating to 1940, Standing Figures displays some of what Kenneth Clark was to describe as the feeling for drama and theatre in Moore's work. The two figures in the foreground of the composition are arranged dramatically at the front of what could almost be a stage with shadowy projections of themselves displayed in the space behind. Despite his theatrical grasp, Moore was never committed to stage design having turned down the opportunity to work on productions of Wagner's Ring and Shakespeare's King Lear. The standing figures boast a clear sculptural quality, most noticeably in the hollowed torsos, yet the work displays a clear semi-independence from the medium with an unquestionable human edge as displayed by the folded arms of the far right figure who appears light-hearted and at ease.~ ~Standing Figures was executed shortly after war was declared in September 1939 and lies at a point whereby the raw materials the artist required for his sculpture were becoming difficult to acquire. Drawing was to become an increasingly important medium as Moore became an official war artist following Kenneth Clark's appointment as Chairman of the War Artists' Advisory Committee. Depictions of the London Underground that were to become known as the Shelter Drawings are considered amongst the artist's finest and a crucial theme of the following years.~ ~Bonhams recently achieved the world auction record for a work on paper by Henry Moore with Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child (1941) achieving £634,850 on 16 November 2011.
