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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
HENRY MOORE Reclining Woman with Yellow Background.
Color lithograph, 1982. 372x470 mm; 14 5/8x18 1/2 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 50. Signed and numbered XI/XV in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Curwen Prints, Ltd., London. Both published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd. for The Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham. A very good impression of this scarce lithograph with strong colors.
We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years.
Moore (1898) recycled lithographic background from two other artists (the light brown and light gray are from a print by Derek Mynott and the gray from a print by Janet Marsh) to combine with his figure of a monumental reclining nude in this lithograph. Cramer 656.
