Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Figures on a Grey Ground
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Figures on a Grey Ground
Date1956
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2912
Date Order NumberAg 56.15
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 242 x 292 mm
Signature
(added later) l.r. Moore/56
OwnershipCollection Lynn K. Altman, USA
Collections
Page from Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook. Floorboards, with their parallel lines which appear to meet as they recede, have been frequently used in art as a way to define space. Jan van Eyck used the device when he painted the Arnolfini Marriage Group (National Gallery, London) in 1434. See also HMF 2916.