Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Reclining Mother and Child
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Reclining Mother and Child
Date1933
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1003
Date Order NumberAG 33.28
Paperoff-white wove
Dimensionspaper: 381 x 544 mm
Signature
pencil l.r. Moore/33
InscriptionOn verso: pencil u.r. in Irina Moore's hand, written at right angles to Moore's own inscription Henry Moore / 11A Parkhill Rd / NW3 / 1933 (crossed through) / 3 gns (crossed through)
OwnershipHarvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David E. Rust
More InformationThe cavern-like drapery around the knees of the mother prefigures Moore's use of drapery in his 1940-41 Shelter drawings. Moore pencilled the initials E.B. on the verso of this drawing, indicating that it may have been intended for Edward Bawden or Edward Burra, both of whom were contemporaries at the Royal College of Art and exhibited with him in 1932.
