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Bernard MEADOWS comments on Moore's work from the 1920s until the immediate post-war years. "He was building up a sort of form-repertoire...There was an authenticity to the way that he saw people...and recorded what he saw...He was enlarging his experience and he was enlarging the experience of all the people who would come along and look at his work...The only fashion was originality...He knew all the Surrealist people...He was really in the middle of the Avant-Garde at that time...It became much more conventional...After the war...I continued working with him for short periods...In the 1940s and 50s the feeling of exploration and adventure was lessened compared with the 30s and the 20s but every so often he came up...with works which really display his old originality".
For England and Moore: Bernard Meadows 1 2 and 3 see 0014184 0014185 and 0014186."
For England and Moore: Bernard Meadows 3 and 4 see 0014186 and 0014200."
17 February 1988 Stephen SPENDER 45 minutes on London Mercury portrait (See 0009197). "We spent about a week doing it...there are something between six and a dozen different versions". Hampstead in the 1930s. "Henry Moore was trying I think very hard at that time to be an abstract artist...but however hard he tried at that time everything he did always turned into something else usually a reclining figure...He wished that he could do work in which his feelings about humanity were more obvious...He signed manifestos...He did feel very committed...In the whole of his life he never had any feeling that anyone was inferior to him or that anyone was superior to him...There was total refusal of Henry ever to force his politics his political sympathies into his work". Spender acknowledged Moore's consciousness of his childhood working-class background but rejected the notion that his work represented a failure of the Labour Movement. "When he got ideas about himself which were often really imposed on him by other people...he could often be misled he could think for instance that anything he did could be cast in bronze and it would be interesting because it was by Henry Moore...After the Moores left Hampstead I doubt whether Henry really had real friends". Use of natural objects and birth of Mary Moore.
17 February 1988 Ghisha KOENIG a student of Moore at Chelsea School of Art in the 1940s attacks Moore as a teacher a person and an artist: "No sense of adventure to the classes...He didn't relate to us as human beings...He is not the great sculptor because he hasn't a real vision...He went on to explain why Rodin was not a great artist... he used assistants he used pointing machines he enlarged maquettes of which he did not work on himself - all the very traps he himself fell into".
For England and Moore: Bernard Meadows 1 2 and 4 see 0014184 and 0014185 and 0014200."
20 minute interview with Bernard MEADOWS on working as Moore's assistant 1936-1940 in Canterbury. "He was quite Left-Wing at the time...His work went along in spite of outside influences...Picasso had a tremendous influence...It was an incredibly inventive period in his work..." Kenneth Clark.
Continued on 0014185 also 0014186 and 0014200."
Book published to accompany the exhibition Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing at Henry Moore Studios & Gardens. An essay by Sebastiano BARASSI offers a chronological survey of Moore's use of drawing, from his work as a schoolboy in Castleford to the late works of the 1980s. pp.30-149 consists of illustrations of Moore's drawings, arranged in chronological order, interspersed with commentaries on 18 of these by Sylvia COX.
Commentaries on:
Reclining Male Nude 1922 (HMF 72)
Seated Nude with Mirror 1924 (HMF 261)
Half-Figure 1928 (HMF 661)
Ideas for Sculpture: Transformation of Bones 1932 (HMF 941)
Mother and Child Studies 1933 (HMF 1005)
Mechanisms 1938 (HMF 1367)
Women and Children in the Tube 1940 (HMF 1726)
Coalminer with Pick 1942 (HMF 1987)
Textile Design: Framed Heads 1943 (HMF 2127)
Ideas for Wall Reliefs 1955 (HMF 2862)
Head 1950, 1958 (HMF 2979)
Two Reclining Figures 1961 (HMF 3052)
Pen Exercise IX: Horsemen Crossing a Mountain Crevasse 1970 (HMF 3248)
Reclining Figure in Illuminated Cave 1978 (HMF 78(18))
Girl Playing the Organ 1980 (HMF 80(207))
Two Standing Figures 1980 (HMF 80(282))
Mother and Child on Seashore II 1982 (HMF 82(223))
Hands 1984-86 (HMF 84/86(713))
Images on the inside covers of Figure Studies (HMF 2449) and Family Group (LH 232).
Lot 1. Family Group, 1944 (LH 232, cast -f) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 2. Figure Studies, 1947-49 (HMF 2449) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 7. Mother and Child: Block Seat, 1983-84 (LH 838, cast 8) illust. and accompanying text. Text also includes comparative images of Madonna and Child, 1943-44 (LH 226), Mother and Child: Hood, 1983 (LH 851), and Upright Internal/External Form, 1953-54 (LH 297).
Lot 8. Draped Seated Figure against Curved Wall, 1956-57 (LH 423, cast c) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 10. Two Heads: Mother and Child, 1923 (LH 13) illust. and accompanying text. Text also includes biographical image of Moore carving c.1930, LH 13 on a windowsill in Hoglands, and Moore with Peggy Guggenheim in the Maquette Studio.
Lot 18. Draped Standing Figures in Red, 1944 (HMF 2253) illust. and accompanying text. Text also includes comparative image of Three Standing Figures, 1947 (LH 268) in Battersea Park.
Lot 19. Family Groups, 1944 (HMF 2214) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 30. Shelterers, 1940-41 (HMF 1826a) illust. and accompanying text. Also uses comparative images of Woman Seated in Underground, 1941 (HMF 1828) and Family Group, 1945 (HMF 259), as well as biographical image of Moore during the filming of Out of Chaos in 1943, taken by Lee Miller.
Lot 31. Three Women in a Shelter, 1941 (HMF 1759) illust. and accompanying text. Text also includes comparative image of Three Seated Figures, 1941 (HMF 1832).
Property from the Ducommun Family Collection:
Lot 1049. Seated Figures, 1948 (HMF 2441) illust.
Lot 1050. Artist's Hands Holding Bone (recto and verso), 1981 (HMF 81(186)) illust.
Lot 1051. Apple Orchard in Winter, 1977 (HMF 77(29)) illust.
Lot 1052. Two Seated Figures, 1980 (HMF 80(254)) illust.
Lot 1053. Ideas for Sculpture, Transformation Drawing, 1932 (HMF 976) illust.
Lot 1054. Two Wrapped Standing Figures, 1951 (HMF 2718) illust.
Lot 1055. Study for the Family, 1944 (HMF 2224a) illust.
Lot 1209. Stringed Figure, 1939 (LH 207, cast 6) illust.
Lot 1211. Horse, 1984 (LH 740a, cast 4) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 1301. Upright Connected Forms, 1979 (LH 782, cast 2) illust.
Lot 1304. Stringed Figure: Bowl, 1938 (LH 186c, cast 7) illust.
Lot 1314. Mother and Child: Wheels, 1962 (LH 510, cast 3) illust.
Lot 1372. Large Slow Form, 1962 cast in 1968 (LH 502a, cast 3) illust.
Lot 1077. Woman in an Underground Shelter Feeding a Child, 1941 (HMF 1827) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 1114. Two Wrapped Standing Figures, 1951 (HMF 2718) illust.
Lot 1115. Paysage du soir avec statues, 1950 (HMF 2589) illust.
Lot 1203. Helmet Head No.1, 1950 (LH 279, cast a) illust.
Lot 1205. Small Maquette No.2 for Reclining Figure, 1950-51 (LH 292b, cast 1) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 1223. Mother and Child: Arch, 1959 (LH 453a) illust. and accompanying text. Also includes comparative images of Madonna and Child, 1943-44 (LH 226) and Mother and Child with Apple, 1956 (LH 406).
Lot 1231. Mother and Child: Studies for Sculpture, 1937 (HMF 2884a) illust.
Lot 1232. Standing Mother and Child: Holes, 1955 (LH 400a) illust.
Lot 1233. Butterfly, 1977 (LH 703) illust. and accompanying text. Includes image of Moore with Divided Oval: Butterfly (LH 571a) and image of Moore with Dr Gabrielle Reem.
Lot 1235. Two Small Forms, 1982 (LH 865, cast 4) illust.
Lot 1237. Studies for Sculpture, 1950 (HMF 2723a) illust.
Lot 1238. Reclining Figure, 1938 (LH 193, cast g) illust. and accompanying text. Also includes comparative image of Recumbent Figure, 1938 (LH 191).
Lot 1252. Draped Reclining Figure: Knee, 1981 (LH 815, cast 9) illust.
Lot 1253. Mother and Child with Tree Trunk, 1979 (LH 770, cast 8) illust.
Lot 1254. Mother and Child on Ladderback Rocking Chair, 1952 (LH 312, cast d) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 1255. Maquette for Draped Reclining Woman, 1956 (LH 429, cast e) illust.
Lot 1256. Three Standing Figures, 1945 (LH 258, cast e) illust. and accompanying text.
Lot 1257. Maquette for Draped Reclining Mother and Baby, 1981 (LH 820, cast 6) illust.
Lot 1258. Two Piece Reclining Figure: Bust, 1975 (LH 668, cast 1) illust. |
Lot 1259. Reclining Torso, 1981 (LH 816, cast 7) illust.
Lot 1260. Reclining Figure: Bunched No.2, 1961 (LH 489b, cast 6) illust.
Lot 1337. Maquette for Reclining Figure: Cloak, 1966 (LH 564, cast 9) illust.
Lot 1338. Stringed Figure, 1939 (LH 207, cast 1) illust.
Lot 1365. Reclining Woman: Skirt, 1981 (LH 842, cast 9) illust.
Lot 1412. Mother Holding Child, 1981 (LH 839, cast 8) illust.
Lot 1419. Upright Motive: Maquette No.12, 1955 (LH 392, cast 3) illust.
Henry Moore: 6 drawings 1935-1948. illus.
Designs for Sculpture, 1935 drawing (HMF 1152).
Studies for Sculpture, 1939 drawing (HMF 1453).
Shelter Scenes: Bunks and Sleepers, 1941 drawing (HMF 1790).
Penelope and her Suitors. The Odyssey, 1944 drawing (HMF 2298).
Death of the Suitors. The Odyssey, 1944 drawing (HMF 2305).
Studies for Sculpture, 1948 drawing (HMF 2442).
Standing Nude, 1926 drawing (HMF 477a)
Maquette for Seated Woman: Thin Neck, 1976 bronze (LH 471)
Standing Figures, 1951 drawing (HMF 2692)
Standing Figure Relief No. 1, 1960 bronze (LH 460)
Standing Figure Relief No. 2, 1960 bronze (LH 461)
Upright Motive: Maquette No. 11, 1955 bronze (LH 391)
Girl Doing Homework, 1969-77 drawing (HMF 3223)
Standing Mother and Child: Holes, 1955 bronze (LH 400a)
Three Sheep and Two Lambs, 1972 drawing (HMF 3344)
Seated Figure, 1935 terracotta and 1974 bronze sold together (LH 154e)
Two Piece Reclining Figure: Double Circle, 1976 polished bronze (LH 694)
Mother Playing With Child on Floor 1, 1982 drawing (HMF 82(405))
Idea for Sculpture, 1969 drawing (HMF 3185)
Head: Lines 1955 bronze (LH 397)
Trees Against Horizon: Autumn Storm 1981 (HMF 81(320))
Thin Standing Figure 1965 bronze (LH 539)
Ideas for Wood Carving: Three Reclining Figures 1942 (HMF 2075)
Standing Female Figure 1929 (HMF 714)
Female Nude/Seated Figure 1928 (HMF 546)
Three Women Winding Wool 1948 (HMF 2496)
Seventeen Reclining Figures 1962 (HMF 3085)
Exhibition catalogue of British watercolour landscapes from 1850-1950 featuring six images of works by Henry Moore on pages:106,110,113,167,168 and169. Page 106 Ideas for Sculpture 1935 (HMF 1160) with text quoting Moore on how the landscape near his home on the Kent Downs in 1930s became important as an enironment for his sculpture with reference to bio-morphism and other new theories that had an influence on him and other artists.
P109 refers to Wentworth Thompson's On Growth and Form as a source book for Moore and a quote from Gordon Onslow Ford on Elmwood Reclining Figure 1939 (LH 210). Page 109 mentions Moore's first visit to Stonehenge in 1921 and discusses its influence on him, leading to a full page image on page 110 of Moore's Two Upright Forms 1936 (HMF 1254).
Page 111 compares Dali's paitings to Moore's Reclining Figure and Red Rocks 1942 (HMF 2067), as presented in full page on page 113.
Page 116 mentions Moore encouraging John Tunnard to collect nautical detritus and reference to morphology, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and others.
Full page image of Crowd Looking at a Tied-up Object 1942 (HMF 2064) on page 167, with discussion on page 166 of Moore's concern with landscape and pictorial settings and the Shelter drawings with quote from Moore on the chorus in Greek drama. Full page image on page 168 of London Skyline 1940-41 (HMF 1574) and on page 169 of Head Made up of Devasted House 1940-41 (HMF 1611).
Page 170 mentions Moore supplying some drawings for Jacquetta Hawkes' Festival of Britain related book A Land 1951 (see 0008129).
Page 198: Head of a girl 1923 bronze (LH 15) and Nude in an Armchair 1929 drawing (HMF 693).
Page 199: Woman Seated with Hands Clasped 1929 drawing (HMF 692).
Page 200: Half Figure 1930 Ancaster stone (LH 91) and a photograph of Moore in his Hampstead studio.
Page 201: Standing Figures 1943 drawing (HMF 2168).
Page 202: Sculptural Ideas Hollow Form 1938 drawing (HMF 1378) and Head studies for sculpture 1939-40 drawing (HMF 1493).
Page 203: Working model for Upright Internal/External Form 1951 bronze (LH 295) and Helmet Head no.5 1966 bronze (LH 544).
The essays which accompany Moore's work discuss his connections with Unit One and his development of abstracted human forms providing quotes from numerous Moore monographs as well as biographical details. Draped Seated Woman 1958 bronze (LH 428) can been seen on page 23 along with a photograph of Moore's work shown on the British Council touring exhibition of 1948."