signed 'Moore' lower right and numbered '39' upper right pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink on paper 21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.) Executed in 1944.
This work on paper has been examined by The Henry Moore Authentication Panel and is recorded as HMF 2289c in The Henry Moore Foundation archive. It is the previously unrecorded page 39/40 from The Rescue Sketchbook, 1944. This is confirmed in a letter from The Henry Moore Foundation, dated 9 April 2015.