Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Composition of Figures
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Composition of Figures
Datec.1938, c.1955
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2881
Date Order NumberAG 55.15
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 279 × 184 mm
Signature
see inscription
Inscription
pen and ink l.r. For Igor Stravinsky/from Henry Moore/1963
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1985
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When Moore presented this drawing to Stravinsky, he received in return a few handwritten bars from a score on which the composer was working. What is visible of the pencil underdrawing is in keeping with Moore's rapid sketches done in 1938.
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