Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Studies of Seated Figures
Studies of Seated Figures
unsigned, undated
pen and ink u.c. Next Monday/Hotel Rochambeau./Rue la Boetie./Paris. 8th; u.l. Female figure/or bust of Fecundity/with large breasts; pencil u.l. bacchus (crossed through); c.l. Painting for Drawing./Reclining Woman./Drawing of the Bathers/Drawing of the dancers./Blacchanal (sic); c.r. (...) (crossed through) Sculpture/Drawing for direct carving in relief/for college next term./Snake composition./Trial/A piece of sculpture of a single/figure - embodying recent thoughts &/theories - movement, (eternal/grinding & interlacing of forms,) - relation/of masses - poise & balance -/individuality of form conception -/(Michelangelo -) etc etc. (hole & /lump - modified - placing of head over/hollow - poising weights - rythmic (sic) flow)/Dynamism -).
Notebook No.2 p 80. The twelve tiny sketches of two seated figures are evidence of Moore's early interest in the work of Cézanne which he would have seen at the Pellerin Collection in Paris.
