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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Statues and Draped Figures

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photo: Damian Griffiths / Hauser & Wirth
Statues and Draped Figures
photo: Damian Griffiths / Hauser & Wirth
photo: Damian Griffiths / Hauser & Wirth

Statues and Draped Figures

Sketchbook
  • Page 9 from Prometheus
Date1949-50
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2555
Date Order NumberAG 49-50.10
Dimensionspaper: 288 × 235 mm
Signature

(both added later) pencil c.r. Moore; l.r. Moore, undated

Inscription

pencil u.c. So here I stand fashioning creatures like to myself, A race in my own image, to suffer, weep, enjoy/pleasure & joy & like myself to hold you in scorn; c.l. THREE DRAPED FIGURES

Ownershipunknown
More Information

verso inscription: pencil u.c. Act I Page 1                                                                                                     

The section lower right, which bore a minuscule pencil sketch of the head on HMF 2565 verso, was removed, probably in the early 1970s.

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