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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

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Sketchbook
  • Page 11 from Unesco Notebook
Date1955-56
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 55-56(10)
Papercream wove
Dimensionspaper: 290 x 240 mm
Signatureunsigned, undated
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Inscription: pencil u.c. Hodin, pencil u.l.  X(circled) 1 A happy resolution/a resolved, happy fixed finality is its aim - / X(circled) 2 there is a huge arm remaining over from the previous state of the carving statue/into which the pieta was later changed – If/ X(circled)3 (Piera della Fancesca/you’ve / When the primitive, the primary element may seem to have/ disappeared, as say in the outward calm of Piero della Francesca,/but in him, in spite of his sophistication + conscious mastery of art, there is also a disturbing element. X It/X 4 Classical detachment alone escapes trying to solve/ X 5. In some periods of the country at on period may produce great music/but not very good paintings, like music around Beethoven’s time/or great poetry but not much music like England in the nineties/Wordsworth tried – one cannt say that)./or like a century or two of great poetry in England with not much good music of painting/contemporary with it + You can’t say that because there’s no church religious unity around any more, + no church to commission large mural decorations - /X 5 The human spirit expresses itself now through one act now through/another, now here + now there for this twenty years poetry will be good, then somewhere else for a hundred years painting will flourish./X 6 He had enough money to be lazy, or to go on modestly working in/isolation, no commissions, no being used public use +/ 6 (Newpart) Its just that in the head part of the figure I could focus/the intention the entire figure – the textures there a bull like though docile, but strong battered but strong, being a suffering but

More Information
Unesco Notebook, p.11
This page, and also page 10 bear notes for an interview with J.P. Hodin in November 1954 (published as an article entitled "The Hidden Struggle" in the Observer, 24 November 1957. 
ExhibitionsPublished References
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HMF 55-56(17)
1955-56
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HMF 55-56(9)
1955-56
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HMF 70/74(10)
1970-74
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HMF 93
1922-24
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HMF 94
1922-24
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HMF 109
1922-24
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HMF 105
1922-24
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HMF 91
1922-24
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HMF 97b
1922-24
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HMF 110a
1922-24
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HMF 295b
1925
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HMF 306
1925