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Heads for Hadham Church

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Heads for Hadham Church
Heads for Hadham Church
Heads for Hadham Church

Heads for Hadham Church

Sketchbook
  • Page 5 from Heads, Figures and Ideas Notebook
Date1953
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2752
Date Order NumberAG 55-56.2
Mediapencil, brush and ink, pen and ink
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil u.l. Heads for Hadham Church – Try in dried clay; u.c.l. Try high cheek bones & sunken eyes; c.l. Try very simple shapes – egg – B (ran (?) added) & Mod; l.l. Try holes – open work head; l.r. P.T.O

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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More Information
Head, Figures and Ideas Notebook p.5. Moore had been asked to make two heads for the west porch of St. Andrew's Church, Much Hadham. The male and female heads, LH 356a and 356b, were carved in Corsham stone in 1953.
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