News from around the salerooms

Forgotten Moore: A newly recorded drawing by Henry Moore, Madonna and Child, which he gave for a Christmas fund-raising project for a new charity in 1952, fetched £35,000 at Bonhams, London. His design was used on mail labels to raise awareness for the organisation now known as Action Medical Research and the Yorkshire artist gave the original to the charity’s founder, Duncan Guthrie, through whose family it had been passed. The wash, pencil, wax and ink drawing appears to be a preparatory work for Moore’s Claydon Madonna and Child (1948-49), which was commissioned by Sir Jasper Ridley as a memorial to his son, who was killed during the Second World War.

Catching the light: Three paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw are for sale at Sotheby’s in London next Thursday. The Last Gleam, which the Leeds-born artist painted at the height of his career in 1883, is afforded top billing, with a pre-sale estimate of £100,000-£150,000. Three paintings by modern-day marine artist John Steven Dews, who was born in Beverley, appear at the same sale, with estimates ranging from £20,000-£50,000.

Striking it rich: A very rare balance wheel striking skeleton clock attributed to James Condliff of Liverpool, circa 1840, fetched £17,475 at Tennants of Leyburn.

Artillery charge: An extremely rare set of English Artillery model soldiers from Waterloo in 1815, part of the French firm Lucotte’s Napoleonic Range, went for £3,000 at Vectis of Thornaby. An 1886 set of British soldiers from the Historical Collectors Series made £1,560.