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Studies for Sculpture: Big Powerful Forms

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photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
Studies for Sculpture: Big Powerful Forms
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Studies for Sculpture: Big Powerful Forms

Date1929
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 740
Date Order NumberAG 29.66
Mediapen and ink, brush and ink
Paperoff-white lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 429 x 345 mm
Signature

(added later) crayon l.r. Moore, undated

Inscription

brush and ink u.c. Big powerful forms Do these figures/in bronze; pen and ink c. Do bronze of > fecundity/& of singing woman./& carve figure seated/on steps/knees; c.r. Do thin/forms in/bronze - turning/axes -/study in axes/plan.

OwnershipDavid and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: The Joel Starrels, Jr. Memorial Collection: acquired 1974
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The diagram on the recto may be the first instance of Moore's separating a figure into its component parts. It was not until the late 50s that he began to put these ideas into practice in his two-, three- and four-piece reclining figures.
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