Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Studies of Hands
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Studies of Hands
Sketchbook
- Page 25 from Notebook No.3
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 95
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.11
Mediachalk
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
Inscription
pencil top of page Composition of two hands. (in terracotta/or bronze/or in marble larger/than life size./clenched/hands.??
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More InformationNotebook No.3 p.25. Moore often asserted that, after the face, the hands were the next most expressive part of the human body. He told Wilkinson that the idea for the hands 'was probably influenced by Rodin'.
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