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Study for 'Mother and Child among Underground Sleepers'

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Study for 'Mother and Child among Underground Sleepers'
Study for 'Mother and Child among Underground Sleepers'
Study for 'Mother and Child among Underground Sleepers'

Study for 'Mother and Child among Underground Sleepers'

Sketchbook
  • Page 20 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1645
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.88
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink, conté crayon
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription

pencil u.c. Platform scenes of sleeping people

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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More Information

Second Shelter Sketchbook p.20. Early photographs of this and HMF 1642 do not show the lines for squaring up, see Melville (1970), although the finished versions of both drawings were made in 1941.

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