HENRY MOORE SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER RARE ARTS FAMOUS ARTIST ABSTRACT SCULPTURES

Description: THIS COMES WITH COA/LETTER CONFIRMING SIGNATURE. This authenticates the Signature to be genuine and covers to 250. This has been done at an extra cost to me but happy as this is a rare stunning item. A First Day Cover Issue Honouring The Fine Arts Stamped December 2nd 1964 and Signed by Henry Moore (1898-1986). This is really a beautiful rare scarce cover and z great one off for any collection. The cover is perfect relating to Henry Moore and stamp. Washington D.C. 1964. The cover is in good condition along with the Signature. There is some grey smudge marks to the front and back of the cover. Henry Moore is famous for his sculptures of people with bumpy forms and hollow spaces in their bodies. His sculptures also sometimes have holes right through them! As well as bumps and hollows he used flowing, abstract shapes in his sculptures. Henry Moore is one of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century. He was born on 30 July 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire, the son of a miner and the seventh of eight children. As a schoolboy Moore showed a talent for art but was encouraged to train as a teacher first. He did not enjoy teaching and signed up to serve in the British Army during the First World War. He was injured in 1917 by a gas attack during the Battle of Cambrai. In 1919, thanks to an ex-serviceman's grant, Moore became a student at the Leeds School of Art. He went on to attend the Royal College of Art in London in 1921. Moore later taught at the College and met Irina Radetsky, whom he married in 1929. Numerous commissions and exhibitions in the 1930s enabled Moores reputation as a leading avant-garde artist to grow, but in 1939 war broke out again. Moore was recruited as an official war artist and produced his now famous drawings of people sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz. In September 1940, the Moores London flat was damaged by bombing and the couple moved to Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Hoglands, a farmhouse in the hamlet, became home for the rest of their lives. Their daughter Mary was born in 1946. Over time, Moore developed outbuildings into studios and Irina created beautiful gardens. Landscape was important to Moore and his work is often associated with nature. The human body is another recurring motif in the artists work and in Perry Green the analogies between the body and landscape could be readily explored. International success characterised Moores career from the 1950s onward. In 1977 he established the Henry Moore Foundation to encourage wider enjoyment and opportunities in the arts. In August 1986 Henry Moore died in Perry Green.

Price: 175 GBP

Location: Dalkeith

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