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Studies of Female Nude

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Studies of Female Nude
Studies of Female Nude
Studies of Female Nude

Studies of Female Nude

Date1925
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 157 verso
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.73
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Torso in Hopton Wood -; u.c. Standing figures -Venus (in marble) probably after toilett (sic); Figure cut off below (crossed through) at thighs; Seated figures - Man (crossed through); l.c. Two or more (inserted above) figures - The family -/The embracers -/mother and child -/The wrestlers -

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Notebook No.3 p.209. No source has been found for the head of the serpent on the right of the recto, but Moore called it 'a bit Mexican'. The woman at lower right on the verso may be linked to a 1927 terracotta Woman Combing Her Hair LH 40. Moore carved three early works in Hopton Wood stone, LH 19, 22 and 23.

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