Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for Poetry
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The Lyre Bird: Cover Design for Poetry
Sketchbook
- Cover Design for Poetry
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2062
Date Order NumberAG 42.172
Paperoff-white heavyweight J. WHATMAN wove
Dimensionspaper: 180 x 189 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/42
Inscriptionblack wax crayon c. THE/LYRE/BIRD
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
Collections
photo of cover not of original drawing
This drawing is a cut-down page from Square Forms and Lyre Birds Sketchbook 1936, c.1938, 1942, 1972, see HMF 1276. It was used as the cover for Issue No.8 November-December 1942 and on the front cover of Stephen Spender's Poetry since 1939, Longman, London 1946. For the genesis of the drawing, see comment on HMF 1236.
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