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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Seated Male Figure

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Seated Male Figure
Seated Male Figure
Seated Male Figure

Seated Male Figure

Sketchbook
  • Page 3 from Notebook No.3
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 88
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.3
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Seated figure -

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information

Notebook No.3 p.3. Moore told Wilkinson that this drawing had been influenced by an Egyptian figure at the British Museum. He described the pose as 'a tied up solid thing . . . a pose done by the Eskimo who can't have seen Egyptian sculpture'.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Published References
photo: Leeds Museums and Galleries
HMF 20(37)
1920
Seated Male Nude
HMF 166
1923
photo: Nigel Moore
HMF 169
1923
Seated Male
HMF 81(369)
1981
Seated Male Nude
HMF 80(102)
1980
Male Figures
HMF 267b
c.1924
Male Figures
HMF 172
1923
Studies of a Male Figure
HMF 140 verso
1922-24