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Ideas for Drawings
Ideas for Drawings
Ideas for Drawings

Ideas for Drawings

Date1937
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1340 verso
Date Order NumberAG 37.66
Mediapencil, crayon, chalk (part-rubbed and washed)
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 273 x 179 mm
Signaturepencil l.r. Moore/1937
Inscriptionpencil u.c. Figure in a tunnel Do drawings of setting for figure; u.c.r. Do another drawing of two/monuments; c.r. Three/boys/helping/each/other/up a tree; apple/stealing; c. see page 517/Frobenius/A big picture with a lot of little/figures/or with large monuments
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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The drawings on the verso, particularly the two at the top, presage Moore's return to more naturalistic forms; only the small rapid sketches at the bottom are in any way abstract. In the inscription, the page reference is to Kulturgeschichte Afrikas by Leo Frobenius (1933) which contained photographs of ritual stones set in a Landscape. Five such stones are drawn at the centre of this page, and they reappear in other drawings of 1938 and 1939 such as HMF 1415 and 1456. See also comment on HMF 1388.
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