HENRY MOORE (BRITISH 1898-1986)
SIX STONES, 1973
£756
Auction: 22 January 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Lithograph, 35/200, signed and numbered in pencil, printed by Curwen Prints, Chilford, published by British Olivetti Ltd., London
Dimensions
32.5cm x 22.5cm (12.75in x 9in)
Provenance
From the Estate of Dorothy Bohm
Footnote
This lithograph was produced to commemorate the opening of British Olivetti's training centre in Haslemere.
Dorothy Bohm was a British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris. She is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.
Dorothy Bohm was born in 1924 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia and moved to England in 1939. By the age of 21, she was running her own very successful portrait studio in central Manchester, known as Studio Alexander. In the mid-1950s, she lived for a while both in Paris and New York before settling definitively in northwest London.
Her first solo exhibition, People at Peace, took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1969, and 1970 saw the publication of her first book, A World Observed. Numerous more books and exhibitions would follow. In 1971 she was closely involved in the founding of The Photographers’ Gallery, and served as its Associate Director for the next fifteen years. By the 1990s Dorothy was firmly established as one of the doyennes of British photography, with work in numerous public and private collections, including Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery and the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.