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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Figure Studies

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Figure Studies

Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 116 verso
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.32
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Crawling figure

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

Notebook No.3 p.89. The study of a walnut shell on the verso looks ahead to the Transformation drawings of the early 1930s in which Moore developed natural forms such as a pebble or a lobster claw into a human figure.

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