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Miner with Pick

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photo: Hauser & Wirth
Miner with Pick
photo: Hauser & Wirth
photo: Hauser & Wirth

Miner with Pick

Sketchbook
  • Page 17 from Coalmining Subjects Sketchbook
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1932
Date Order NumberAG 42.28
Dimensionspaper: 203 x 162 mm
Inscription

pencil u.c. Man knelt (sic) down, Man & pick under fault –/(. . .) ledge of stone roof supported on props – uneven roof & floor

Ownershipprivate collection, UK
More Information

Coalmining Subjects Sketchbook p.[17]. The vigorous sketches of broad-shouldered, muscular miners were to find sculptural expression in the male figures in Family Groups some five or six years later.

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