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Ideas for Sculpture: Transformation Drawing

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photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
Ideas for Sculpture: Transformation Drawing
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ideas for Sculpture: Transformation Drawing

Date1932
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 978
Date Order NumberAG 32.90
Mediapencil
Papermedium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 367 x 272 mm
Signature

(added later) pencil l.r. Moore/32

Inscription

pencil c.r. built/concrete

OwnershipDavid and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: The Joel Starrels Jr Memorial Collection
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Moore often commented to the cataloguer that he could record ten, twenty, thirty ideas for sculpture on paper in the time that it would take to do one small sculpture.  The two sketches lower right recur in 1980-81 as the central form in HMF 80(251) and CGM 590.
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