Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Eleven Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures

Date1935

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 1150

Date Order NumberAG 35.58

Mediapencil, crayon, watercolour, charcoal (rubbed and washed), brush and ink, pen and ink

Papercream lightweight wove

Dimensionsframe: 681 x 529 x 31 mm

Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/35

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired by exchange 1981

Collections

More Information

The lowest drawing recalls small sketches in HMF 1133. The motif of an oval containing a smaller oval bisected by a line which connects the oval to a point (a breast and a nipple?) on the reclining figure is also to be found in HMF 1148. See also HMF 1162.

Exhibitions

2012 Moscow, Kremlin, Henry Moore at the Moscow Kremlin

2011 Perry Green, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore: Plasters

2010-11 Paris, Musée Rodin, Henry Moore: L’atelier

1999 Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Henry Moore

2005 Mexico City, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Henry Moore y Mexico

2001-02 Dallas, San Francisco & Washington, Henry Moore: Sculpting in the 20th Century

Published References

Celebrating Moore: Works from the collection of the Henry Moore Foundation; edited by David Mitchinson.

Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture

Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Volume 2, 1930-39: edited by Ann GARROULD.