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Homage to Seurat: Girl Playing Piano

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Homage to Seurat: Girl Playing Piano
Homage to Seurat: Girl Playing Piano
Homage to Seurat: Girl Playing Piano

Homage to Seurat: Girl Playing Piano

Date1980
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 80(292)
Date Order NumberAG 80.329
PaperT.H. Saunders watercolour paper
Dimensionspaper: 327 × 292 mm
Signature

chinagraph l.l. Moore/80

Inscription

chinagraph Homage/to Seurat/Girl playing Piano

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
More Information
Moore owned three drawings by Georges Seurat (1859-91). He had long admired Seurat's handling of light and shade in his compositions. This contre-jour drawing recalls that of Seurat's mother sitting on a balcony (de Hauke) acquired by Moore in the 1970's
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Published References
Woman Playing Piano
HMF 80(291)
1980
Boy Playing Piano
HMF 84/86(98)
1984-86
Woman Playing Piano
HMF 83(276)
1983
Woman Playing Piano
HMF 75/80(12) verso
c.1976, 1980
Girl at Piano
HMF 84/86(170)
1984-86
Girl Playing the Organ
HMF 80(207)
1980
Girl Playing Violin
HMF 84/86(575)
1984-86
Hands at Piano
HMF 84/86(451)
1984-86