Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

and the British Museum. Moore taught at the Royal College of Art and the Chelsea School of Art during the late 1920s/1930s. During this pivotal decade, Moore and other members of an avant-garde artistic group known as The Seven and Five Society, would develop steadily more abstract work, inf luenced by their frequent trips to Paris and their contact with leading progressive artists, notably Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jean Arp and Alberto Giacometti. By the mid-1930s, Moore also f lirted with Surrealism; both he and fellow artist Paul Nash were on the organizing committee of the International Surrealist Exhibition, which took place in London in 1936. [15,000/20,000]