Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Idea for Spoleto Festival Poster
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Idea for Spoleto Festival Poster
Date1981
Artist
Henry Moore
(British, 1898 - 1986)
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 81(407)
Date Order NumberAG 81.380
PaperBockingford white wove
Dimensionspaper: 356 x 254 mm
Signature
ballpoint pen l.r. Moore, undated
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1987
More InformationThe composer and founder of the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Giancarlo Menotti, visited Moore in December 1981 and asked him to design a poster for the 1982 festival. Moore made seven drawings HMF 81(407)-81(413), mistakenly incorporating the date 1981 in the design. Two of the drawings HMF 81(410) and 81(411) were taken by Menotti before they had been photographed. One of these – it is not known which – was used for the poster, the date clearly having been altered. The other drawing has not been traced.
PO 1982.17
26 June 1982 to 18 July 1982