Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Pietà (after Giovanni Bellini)
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Pietà (after Giovanni Bellini)
Date1979
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 79(87)
Date Order NumberAG 79.115
PaperDisegno Palladio white wove
Dimensionspaper: 186 x 134 mm
Signature
pencil l.r. Moore/79
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
More InformationMoore long admired the work of Giovanni Bellini and had, in 1975, already chosen to draw an 'interpretation' of Bellini's Pietà in the collection of the Brera Museum in Milan.
This drawing is based on the Pietà in the British Museum; see also Moore's studies of another Pietà by Bellini in the Brera, Milan, HMF 75(13)-75(16).
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