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  • Provenance

    Collection of Lord Kenneth Clark, O.M.
    Private Collection, UK (by descent)
    Osborne Samuel, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Osborne Samuel, Henry Moore, 22 May - 27 June 2015, p.50 (illustrated, p.51)

Henry Moore

Odysseus in the Naiad's Cave

signed 'Moore' lower right and numbered '39' upper right
pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink on paper
21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1944.

This work on paper has been examined by The Henry Moore Authentication Panel and is recorded as HMF 2289c in The Henry Moore Foundation archive. It is the previously unrecorded page 39/40 from The Rescue Sketchbook, 1944. This is confirmed in a letter from The Henry Moore Foundation, dated 9 April 2015.

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