Mixed media . Gouache, watercolor, black chalk, ink and pencil. Lower right signed and dated, barely legibly inscribed "Interior & Exterior Forms (Interiors)" in top center. On creme wove paper. 29 x 23.2 cm. , size of sheet.
With a few more ink pen drawings on the reverse. Page 111 from Henry Moore's sketchbook 1950-51. [CH] More works from the Dr. Maier-Mohr Collection are offered in our Evening Sale on Friday, June 7, 2024, as well as in our Modern Art Day Sale on Saturday, June 8, 2024 (see catalog “Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr - A Private Collection”).
- Besides sculptures, drawings with a sculptural approach to the human form also occupy an important position in his oeuvre. - By integrating a smaller form into a larger one, Moore's 'inner and outer forms' are related to elements of his mother-and-child motifs. - Moore also found inspiration for the integration of smaller forms in prehistoric tools and sculptures from Papua New Guinea (among others at the British Museum, London).
The work is registered at the Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, under the number HMF 2664a.
LITERATURE: Ann Garrould, Henry Moore. Complete Drawings, vol. 4 (1950-1976), London/Much Hadham 2003, no. AG 50-51.48 (illu. in black and white). - - Tobias Capwell, Hannah Higham (ed.), ex. cat. Henry Moore. The Helmet Heads, Wallace Collection, London 2019, p. 81 (illu. in black and white, no. 36).

Fischer Fine Art Ltd., London. Dr. Theo Maier-Mohr Collection (acquired from the above in 1985). Ever since family-owned

Elaborate early drawing in good condition. Sheet with small creases in the margins, mainly in the left margin and in the upper left and lower right corners. Small creases in the lower left and in the lower left margins. Three small, professionally closed tears (approx. 0.4 to 1.1 cm) in the left edge of the sheet. Isolated tiny brown spots.