
Signed Henry Moore (LR) original color lithograph,
Description
"limited edition, 4/50, titled ""Ideas for Metal Sculpture IV"". This piece is listed in Henry Moore's catalogue raissone catalog number 614. This piece is from the Michael Rosenberg Estate. Henry Moore was born on July 30, 1898 and passed away in England on August 31, 1986. He studied at the Leeds College of Art in West Yorkshire and the Royal College of Art in London. Moore began his career as a teacher in Yorkshire, and in 1921, he won a Royal Exhibition Scholarship to study sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Moore became interested in the Mexican, Egyptian and African sculpture that he saw at the British Museum, all of which inspired his later art. Moore was an important force in the English Surrealist movement. In 1940, Moore was appointed an official war artist and was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to execute drawings of life in underground bomb shelters. Moore was given his first major retrospective abroad by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1946. In 1963, the artist was awarded the British Order of Merit. In 1978, an exhibition of his work organized by the Art Council of Great Britain was held at the Serpentine in London. Site: 10.375""H x 11""W; Frame: 18.75""H x 19""W.` Circa - 1981."
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Signed Henry Moore (LR) original color lithograph,
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