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Study for a Gargoyle

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Study for a Gargoyle
Study for a Gargoyle
Study for a Gargoyle

Study for a Gargoyle

Sketchbook
  • Page 67 from Notebook No.3
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 111
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.27
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Composition in square form. -/semi gargoyle (crossed through) abstraction - Gargoyle - (walsingham)/(power & stress of forms.

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Notebook No.3 p.67. The study on the recto appears to have been based on gargoyles seen by Moore at Walsingham in Norfolk, the site of a ruined Augustinian priory and a late thirteenth-century  Franciscan friary two miles south of Wighton.
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