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Abstract Compositions
Abstract Compositions
Abstract Compositions

Abstract Compositions

Sketchbook
  • Page 89 from Notebook No.3
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 116
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.32
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Abstract composition - developed from/naturalistic (?) animal or human -/form; u.c.l. half a walnut?

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Notebook No.3 p.89. The study of a walnut shell on the verso looks ahead to the Transformation drawings of the early 1930s in which Moore developed natural forms such as a pebble or a lobster claw into a human figure.
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