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Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone

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Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone
Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone
Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone

Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone

Datec.1966
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 3180c verso
Date Order NumberAG 66.70
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 290 x 240 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information

From an unidentified sketchbook. Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, brothers of the poet Edith who had died in 1964, asked Moore to design a headstone for her grave in Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire. Moore's bronze Hand Relief No.1 1952 LH 354, showing the hand of a child holding that of an adult, is set into the stone. Moore attended the dedication of the headstone in November 1967.

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