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Male Half-Figure, Study after an Etruscan Figure

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Male Half-Figure, Study after an Etruscan Figure
Male Half-Figure, Study after an Etruscan Figure
Male Half-Figure, Study after an Etruscan Figure

Male Half-Figure, Study after an Etruscan Figure

Date1925-26
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 419 verso
Date Order NumberAG 25-26.56
Mediapencil, wash
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 222 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Notebook No.5 p.15. This drawing of a late 2nd Century BC Etruscan figure of a young boy, the so-called 'Putto Graziani' in the Museo Etrusco Gregoriano in the Vatican, was done from an Alinari photograph which Moore probably bought when he was in Italy. By adding breasts and thickening the hips and thighs, Moore has transformed the boy's figure into that of a woman.

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