Lot 7 · 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale
King and Queen
Henry Moore · bronze with a dark green and brown patina
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- Estimate
- £10,000,000–£15,000,000 hammer ≈ $13,361,702–$20,042,553
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale , London · 5 March 2026
- Dimensions
- Height: 64 ½ in. (164 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3096131
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Henry Moore, King and Queen. Christie's, 5 Mar 2026, lot 7. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3096131.
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| Beach Wear | Gerald Laing | £1,000,000–£1,500,000 | |
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| Lemon | Lucian Freud | £600,000–£800,000 | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Moore | Reclining Figure: Festival | $31,000,000 | Sotheby's, Nov 2022 | |
| Pablo Picasso | Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant) | Sotheby's, Jun 2018 | ||
| Pablo Picasso | Femme au béret rouge-orange | Sotheby's, Oct 2021 | ||
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| Henri Matisse | La Chaise lorraine | Sotheby's, May 2026 | ||
| Pablo Picasso | Compotier et guitare | Sotheby's, Nov 2023 | ||
| Pablo Picasso | Buste de femme | Sotheby's, Jun 2026 | ||
| Henry Moore | Reclining Woman: Elbow | Christie's, Nov 2025 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.