About the Artwork
Family Group No. 2
1944
Henry Moore
1898-1986
English
Unknown
Watercolor, gouache, pen and brush and ink, and chalk over graphite pencil
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 14 1/4 inches (46.4 × 36.2 cm) Framed: 21 3/16 × 26 3/16 × 1 1/16 inches (53.8 × 66.5 × 2.7 cm)
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Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.277
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pen and black ink, lower right corner: Moore | 44.
Inscribed, in pencil, top edge: "Page 11 D" Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right: Family Group [crossed out] Group | no. 2 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: 22 x 26/ 4 [?] Inscribed, in red pencil, verso, lower right: 9 [in circle] Inscribed, verso, indigo raw amber | + grey [crossed out] Inscribed, verso, lower right corner: Frame 123
Provenance
1945, Buchholz Gallery (New York, New York, USA)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Henry Moore, Family Group No. 2, 1944, watercolor, gouache, pen and brush and ink, and chalk over graphite pencil. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.277.
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