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Half-Figure of a Woman

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Half-Figure of a Woman
Half-Figure of a Woman
Half-Figure of a Woman

Half-Figure of a Woman

Sketchbook
  • Inside Front Cover from Notebook No.3
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 86
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.1
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

pen and ink u.r. Henry Moore/3 Grove Studios/Adie Road/ Hammersmith/London; (added later) pencil u.l. 1922-24

Inscription

pencil u.l. The 20th /20/No 3 not (sic) book /not enough/action(?) power./stress between forms./too insipid; KM (circled); l.l. Sunday July 4.5 or 6 or 7/got as far as Easter/Island/Sunday July 12.13 or 14/reached N.W.Coast of America; l.r.(vertically) Saturday/Figi (crossed through) Fiji Islands

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Published References
Woman: Half-Figure
HMF 84/86(491)
1984-86
Woman: Half-Figure
HMF 84/86(667)
1984-86
Half-Figure of a Woman
HMF 450 verso
1926
Woman: Half-Figure
HMF 84/86(664)
1984-86
Half-Figure of a Woman
HMF 74/76(48) verso
1976, 1979