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HENRY MOORE H.Signed Lithograph British Art

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HENRY MOORE H.Signed Lithograph British Art
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HENRY MOORE 1898-1986
Castleford 1898-1986 Perry Green (British)

Title: Three Sisters, 1981

Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in colours on BFK Rives vellum paper

Paper Size: 56 x 45 cm / 22 x 17.7 in

Image Size: 35 x 25 cm / 13.8 x 9.8 in

Additional Information: This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Moore" in the lower right margin.
It is hand numbered in pencil "48/50" in the lower left margin.
The work was published by Raymond Spencer and printed by J.E. Wolfensberger, Zurich in 1981 in a limited edition of 50 hand signed and numbered impressions. There were a further 25 proofs.

Provenance: Purchased directly from Editions Poligrafa, Barcelona by the current owner.

Literature: Cramer, Gerald, Grant, Alistar & Mitchinson, David, 1986. Henry Moore: Catalogue of the Graphic Work, Volume IV, 1980-1984. Geneva: Gerald Cramer.
Reference: Cramer 621

Condition: Very good condition. Some paper peeling verso, shows very lightly through on the front upper margin.

Note: The Three Sisters refers to a rock formation in the Blue Mountains in Australia. The commonly told legend of the Three Sisters is that three sisters fell in love with three men from a neighbouring tribe, but marriage was forbidden by tribal law. Battle ensued, and the sisters were turned to stone by an elder to protect them, but he was killed in the fighting and no one else could turn them back. This legend is claimed to be an Indigenous Australian Dreamtime legend.