May 05, 2005 - Sale 2042

Sale 2042 - Lot 420

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HENRY MOORE
Sketchbook 1928 The West Wind Relief.

Portfolio with facsimile sketchbook, printed catalogue and one color etching and aquatint on Arches, 1979-80. 222x298 mm; 83/4x113/4 inches, full margins, loose as issued.

One of 75 signed copies with one signed print, the second "B" edition, of a total edition of 350. Signed in ink and numbered B 73/75 in pencil on the inside front cover of the sketchbook. The print signed and numbered 73/75 in pencil, lower margin. The print printed by James Collyer and John Crossley, London. Published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd., London, for the Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham.

Original portfolio solander box covered in green Richard de Bas paper. In excellent condition. Cramer 573.