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Drawing: Pen Exercise

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Drawing: Pen Exercise
Drawing: Pen Exercise
Drawing: Pen Exercise

Drawing: Pen Exercise

Sketchbook
  • Page from Italian Notebook
Date1979
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 79(140)
Date Order NumberAG 79.019
Mediachalk
Paperwhite wove
Dimensionspaper: 233 x 180 mm
Signatureunsigned, undated
OwnershipHMF Enterprises Limited
More Information
This whimsical drawing (which may be seen as representing a dog), may have begun as what Moore called a 'pen exercise'. In the Wildenstein exhibition catalogue of 1979 he wrote of 'finding expressive pleasure in the free use of pen and ink', that is, drawing simply for the pleasure of it.
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