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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Mother and Child: Heads

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Mother and Child: Heads
Mother and Child: Heads
Mother and Child: Heads

Mother and Child: Heads

Date1980
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 80(183)
Date Order NumberAG 80.226
Paperblue lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 149 x 206 mm
Signature

ballpoint pen l.r. Moore/80

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
More Information
Last in the series of heads.  None of the heads is a portrait of a specific sitter. Moore sometimes talked of 'imagined' heads which might perhaps be regarded as composite portraits of the people around him at this time. Executed at Forte dei Marmi.
ExhibitionsPublished References
photo: Hauser & Wirth
HMF 2642
1950-51
Three Heads
HMF 80(168)
1980
Two Heads
HMF 81(273)
1981
Helmet Heads
HMF 2643
1950-51
Two Girls' Heads
HMF 80(25)
1980
Helmet Heads
HMF 2412
1948
Helmet Heads
HMF 2664a
1950
Three Heads
HMF 79(4)
1979
Two Heads
HMF 82(275) verso
1982