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Mother and Child: Heads

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Mother and Child: Heads
Mother and Child: Heads
Mother and Child: Heads

Mother and Child: Heads

Date1980
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 80(183)
Date Order NumberAG 80.226
Mediawatercolour wash, charcoal, gouache
Paperblue lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 149 x 206 mm
Signature

ballpoint pen l.r. Moore/80

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
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Last in the series of heads.  None of the heads is a portrait of a specific sitter. Moore sometimes talked of 'imagined' heads which might perhaps be regarded as composite portraits of the people around him at this time. Executed at Forte dei Marmi.
ExhibitionsPublished References
photo: Hauser & Wirth
LH 13
Two Heads: Mother and Child
1923
photo: Hauser & Wirth
HMF 2642
Helmet Heads
1950-51
Three Heads
HMF 80(168)
Three Heads
1980
Two Heads
HMF 81(273)
Two Heads
1981
Helmet Heads
HMF 2643
Helmet Heads
1950-51
Two Girls' Heads
HMF 80(25)
Two Girls' Heads
1980
Helmet Heads
HMF 2412
Helmet Heads
1948
Helmet Heads
HMF 2664a
Helmet Heads
1950
Three Heads
HMF 79(4)
Three Heads
1979
Textile Design: Four Heads
HMF 2124f
Textile Design: Four Heads
1943
Heads of Angels (after Ghiberti)
HMF 81(84)
Heads of Angels (after Ghiberti)
1981
Two Heads
HMF 82(275) verso
Two Heads
1982