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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

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Sketchbook
  • Page 146 from Notebook No.4
Date1925
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 306
Date Order NumberAG 25.44
Paperoff-white laid
Dimensionspaper: 228 x 175 mm
Inscription

pencil top of page Composition - return of the prodigal son -/leave this -

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information
further inscription obliterated; Notebook No.4 p.146. In a letter to William Rothenstein, Principal of the Royal College of Art, written in March 1925, Moore said: 'I have a great desire - almost an ache for the sight of a tree that can be called a tree - for a tree with a trunk'.
ExhibitionsPublished References
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HMF 2547
1949-50
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HMF 2551 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2566 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2555 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2568 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2887 verso
c.1937, c.1956
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HMF 2556 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2557 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2554 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2552 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2564 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2886 verso
c.1938, c.1956