Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Studies of Primitive Sculptures
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Studies of Primitive Sculptures
Date1931
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 884
Date Order NumberAG 31.53
Mediapencil
Dimensionspaper: 273 x 181 mm
Signature
(added later) pencil l.l. Moore/31
Inscription
pencil top of page Remember Mexican mother & child at Burneys - simple power/& intensity - and Negro figure - for vitality & pick (sic) of life &/the figure belonging to Epstein - Negro mother & child for big primitive power/Sensitiveness - & long armed figure -/Phillipine (sic) mask - paleolithic -/Tenseness - angles (last letter crossed out)
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Wilkinson suggests that Moore may also have had Inuit carvings in mind as he drew this page of studies.
