"Child Study"

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(1979)

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"Child Study", 1979, etching and drypoint, full margins, 251x188mm; 9" x 7", with BFK Rives watermark..  Signed and numbered.  Printed by Lacouriere and Frelaut, Paris. Published by the Raymond Spencer Company, Ltd., for the Henry Moore Foundation.  A very good impression [Cramer 498].

Henry Moore (1898-1986) was born in Castlewood, Yorkshire. He attended the Leeds Art School and the Royal College of Art, London.  Although he never made the abstract his major concern, Moore's work is more or less in the abstract idiom.  He was an outstanding draughtsman with a generally unmistakable and immediately recognizable style. His drawings completed as a World War II war artist are considered the most poignant records in existence of the effects of bombing on a civilian population.

Although primarily known as a sculptor,  Henry Moore was also a prolific painter and graphic artist.  The maternal and children were a constant theme in his work.. A simple but sensitive portrait, "Child Study" is a free form etching and drypoint. Here Moore uses quick and rapid etching strokes to create a sensitive image of a young child.

Moore's "Child Study" is framed in a 22 1/8" x 18 3/4" Larson-Juhl "Louis XV" Chateau series water-gilded and burnished silver frame.  The outer white linen, middle dove gray Beveled Accent and inner white line mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ... SOLD