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Ideas for Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture

Sketchbook
  • Page from Sketchbook
Date1935
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1183
Date Order NumberAG 35.94
Mediapen and ink, wash, pencil (rubbed), pencil
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 273 x 181 mm
Signature

(added later) pencil l.r. Moore, undated

Inscription

pencil u.l. Reclining Figure; u.c. Keep to pure sculpture; u.c.r. Statue; c.l. Statues; c. Bird cage sculpture with wood & plaster

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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The studies upper centre right on the recto were developed further in HMF 1277, a sketchbook page subsequently enlarged in HMF 1254, where the dark mysterious head appears between the two figures. The seated figures on the verso presage a number of future ideas, for example the 1938 drawings for projected sculptures on the Senate House of London University, and much later graphic work such as the 1974 lithographs in the Seated Figures portfolio CGM 402-412 and the etching of 1979 CGM 596.
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