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Half-Figure
Half-Figure

Half-Figure

Date1928
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 630 verso
Date Order NumberAG 28.20
Mediachalk, wash, pencil
Paperoff-white lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 228 x 180 mm
Inscriptionpencil top of page  Make architectural experiments./Big form (Remember Massaccio [sic] in Nat. Art. Col. Fund)
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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Sketchbook 1928: West Wind Relief p.(41).The overlay on the recto depicts three flying figures, drawn in chalk and pencil under ink wash. That on the verso shows the upper half of a female figure drawn in pencil, crayon and pen and ink brushed over with ink wash, and some abstract sketches in crayon. The reference to Masaccio concerns the central panel of the Pisa polyptych, the 'Madonna and Child with Angels' of 1426 (in the National Gallery, London since 1916).
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