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Miners' Heads
Miners' Heads
Miners' Heads

Miners' Heads

Sketchbook
  • Page 61 from Coalmining Notebook A
Date1941-42
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1918
Date Order NumberAG 41-42.56
Mediapencil
Dimensionspaper: 127 x 200 mm
Inscription

pencil u.c. lips white because of licking. eyes & cheekbones whiter than/rest – most muck rond (sic) nose & creases from nose./whites of eyes very brilliant/& teeth; c.l. lips/white

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Moore often later remarked upon the whiteness of the miners’ lips against their coal-blackened faces.
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