Name: Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Brand: Pallas Heads
Price: 10000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Pallas Heads
signed and dated 'Moore 54' (lower right) and inscribed 'PALLAS' (upper right)
watercolor, white wax crayon, pen and India ink and pencil on board
11¹⁄₂ x 9³⁄₈ in. (29.2 x 23.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1954-1956

E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
Feingarten Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the present owners, circa 1980.

H. Read, intro., Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1949-1954, London, 1968, vol. II (illustrated, pl. 112).
A. Garrould, ed., Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, 1950-1976, Aldershot, 2003, vol. 4, p. 72, no. AG 54-56.45 (illustrated, p. 73).

New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, An Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, October-November 1956, no. 16 (illustrated in color; dated 1954 and titled Study for Helmet Heads).

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Henry Mancini was one of the most versatile talents in contemporary music. During his lifetime he was nominated for 72 Grammy Awards, winning 20, and was granted a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, Mancini was also nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four, as well as a Golden Globe in addition to a great variety of other awards and honors. Mancini's deep love of music and support of young musicians is evident in the scholarships and fellowships he established at top music schools. Many up and coming composers, conductors and arrangers have benefitted from Mancini programs at Juilliard School of Music, UCLA, USC, The Henry Mancini Institute at UM and at The American Federation of Music's ‘Congress of Strings’. Henry Mancini died in 1994.
Ginny Mancini is a longtime supporter of the Southern California arts and culture community. She is past President of SHARE and co-founder of the Society of Singers, The Henry Mancini Institute, a Director of the Geffen Playhouse and Secretary of the ASCAP Foundation. Ginny is an honorary member of the Music Center Blue Ribbon Board, Director Emeritus of the Music Center Board of Governors, and Life Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Board of Directors, having serviced since 1989. She is President Emeritus of the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, having been honored for her ‘Outstanding Leadership’ in the 1998 reopening of Royce Hall. Her proudest moment of accomplishment was chairing the three opening nights of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003.
Henry Mancini’s wife Ginny and their children Christopher, Monica and Felice, continue the Mancini legacy, including actively supporting The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, a national non-profit organization established in 1996 that supports K-12 music education, providing vital services and musical instruments to high-need schools with under-funded music programs. A substantial portion of the sale proceeds will benefit this ongoing important work.
According to Ann Garrould, "Moore made a group of small plaster reliefs as trials for a gallery seal" (op. cit.) at the request of the directors of the Pallas Gallery, London. The drawings on the sheet are studies for these reliefs.