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Figures in Bombed Streets

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photo: British Museum
Figures in Bombed Streets
photo: British Museum
photo: British Museum

Figures in Bombed Streets

Sketchbook
  • Page 62 from First Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1620
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.62
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 181 x 160 mm
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pen and ink u.l. Blanketed figure in bombed street; pencil u.r. Seated woman with (overwritten &) child; l.c. Figure lying down

OwnershipThe British Museum, London, bequeathed by Lady Clark
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First Shelter Sketchbook p.62. In all three sketches the human figures dominate the architecture against which they are set. The composition of the section upper left is reminiscent of Tintoretto's Exhumation of the Body of St Mark in the Accademia, Venice, which Moore is likely to have seen in 1925.

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