Signed lower right in black ink: 'HM'. Inscribed and dated in blue biro lower right recto: ‘H 1951’; inscribed in black marker verso: ‘Between Benevenue and the Strand / 50 x 19 1/2 / Shruns 1951 / oil on paper’.
Exhibition invitation card, printed in black on white and red background. Four groups of works are listed on the right hand side: 'Pictures by Henry Moore, Ceri Richards, Lilian Colbourn and others' / 'Small Sculptures by P. King, R. Jones, G. Kruger…
The hands of shadow-puppet-maker and animator Lotte Reiniger are seen drawing in white pencil on black paper the head of a boy in feathered cap. Reiniger works at a table, outdoors in the garden, at the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet.
A solid bronze cast of a female figure with a bow in her right arm, riding a horse that is standing on a textured naturalistic base representing the ground. 58.42 cm high by 54.61 cm deep. Signed with initials and dated 1930 underneath.
Depicts Christ kneeling to support the limp body of a fallen German soldier in a pieta type composition. Christ notably has ringlets either side of his face, akin to Orthodox Jewish payots.