Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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Monograph on Epstein. Mentions of Moore throughout, beginning (p.15) with Epstein's early purchases of three Moore works (Suckling Child (probably LH 42), Mother and Child (LH 105), and Composition (LH 99 or LH 102)) and ending (pp.225-6) with the Arts Council exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture in which Moore (among others) was selected to exhibit, but Epstein was not.
pp.47-9: substantial discussion of Moore's second solo exhibition, in 1931 at the Leicester Galleries; mentions Epstein's loan of Suckling Child (LH 96) and his writing of an introduction to the catalogue; discusses Moore's friendship with Epstein and the decline in their relationship.
p.99: discussion of Moore's Reclining Figure 1934-35 (illus.) and its similarities to Epstein's Consummatum Est 1936 and Andre Mategna's Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1940.
pp.134-5: Comparison between Epstein's works on slavery in the 1940s and Moore's Shelter Drawings, with an illustration of Shelterers in the Tube 1941 (HMF 1797). Another mention of Moore's Shelter Drawings on p.149.
pp.174-5: Epstein's increasing animosity towards Moore, and the 1948 Battersea Park exhibition. Illus. of Three Standing Figures.
pp.180-184: Festival of Britain. Various mentions of Moore and of Reclining Figure: Festival.
p.214: Mention and illus. of Falling Warrior.