Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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pencil u.c. Drawings; u.l. (Many crossed out) (Most added) of my drawings are drawings for sculpture,/that is (they serve me as a kind of breeding & inserted) (a crossed out) sorting house for sculptural ideas,/but drawings (in different forms crossed out) (and inserted) sculpture are not/at all the same,(. . . crossed out) (they have inserted) many quite different possibilities/& qualities. It shouldn't be enough for a drawing to/be only a (one view inserted) substitute for sculpture. And I'd like/to think that my drawings ((not only the shelter drawings, but the sculpture drawings) inserted) exist in their own/right. (That crossed out) They may shed light on the carvings,/(naturally because they're done by the same person)/but I enjoy drawing as a means of expression/for its own sake. If the drawings help to clarify/or extend (the crossed out) appreciation of the sculpture,(well & good crossed out),/or if people get pleasure finding the connection between/them, well & good, – but the 'drawings for/sculpture' are not meant to be (diagrams crossed out),/(or just crossed out) (only inserted) 'working' drawings or diagrams for/sculpture, (but to have some qualities of/their own. crossed out) (etc crossed out) or 'explanations'/of the sculpture, but are (often inserted) intended to/have some (purely pictorial inserted) qualities of their own./Use (of inserted) colour for its emotional effect, not its decorative/or realistic effect.
In the recto inscription 'Geoffs book' probably refers to The Arts Today, edited by Geoffrey Grigson (John Lane The Bodley Head, London 1935).