Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Meditations on the Effigy.
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Bib. Number0005093
Meditations on the Effigy.
Author/EditorMOORE Henry.
PublisherMarlborough
Place PublishedLondon
Year1968
Date & CollationPrint album.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationPortfolio of twelve Lithographs and two Etchings 1966-1967 (Cramer 66-79) in a total edition of 50, published on the occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday. A 10pp text folio contains an Introduction and Commentary on the individual prints by Robert MELVILLE, a list of the 14 prints, and details of the editions. Melville explains Moore's move away from drawings to maquettes in preparation for his sculpture, and notes a 1948 drawing as the basis of the present series of lithographs. The prints are seen as the endless dialogue between object and effigy...the graphic notations of a maker of living stones" with the image of woman predominating. The commentaries on the 14 prints are a combination of facts and poetic description: "Ghosts of stone and bronze figures shades of Nature goddesses reclining on their platforms encircled by shadows like dipping wings and falling leaves.""