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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

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Sketchbook
  • Page 10 from Unesco Notebook
Date1955-56
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 55-56(9)
Mediapencil
Papercream wove
Dimensionspaper: 290 x 240 mm
Signatureunsigned, undated
Inscription

pencil u.l. A (circled) I don’t count crime + Horror films – Frankenstein + grand guignol,  a freak/waxwork, Madam Tussaud Chamber of Horrors, are something also done for entertainment / + made for box office, entertainment, + not/ A (circled) I count Crime + Horror films, Frankenstein + grand guignol, eye opening as/made for the same purpose as waxworks Chambers of Horrors, for box – office/entertainment, (not to challenge disturb or doubly disturb)./A (circled) Crime + Horror films, Frankenstein, gran guignol eye-opening/like waxwork chamber of Horrors are also made for entertainment, for box office, not to challenge or deeply disturb. pencil l.l. By disturbing, not beautiful – I don’t mean ugly – I mean more what the/feeling we get from anything with great energy + have in it – Power is not/ugliness, nor is it beauty, - it is Life – energy-


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Unesco Notebook, p.10
This page, and also page 11 bear notes for an interview with J.P. Hodin in November 1954 (published as an article entitled (The Hidden Struggle) in the Observer, 24 November 1957. 
ExhibitionsPublished References
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HMF 91
1922-24
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HMF 87
1922-24
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HMF 90
1922-24
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HMF 1448 verso
1939
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HMF 73/74(87)
1972
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HMF 73/74(85)
1972
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HMF 73/74(89)
1972
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HMF 1400 verso
1938
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HMF 74/76(12) verso
1973, 1976
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HMF 3368 verso
1972
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HMF 3316 verso
1971
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HMF 74/76(14) verso
1973, 1976