Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ideas for Sculpture: Seven Seated Figures
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Ideas for Sculpture: Seven Seated Figures
Date1931
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 865
Date Order NumberAG 31.31
Paperoff-white medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 362 x 272 mm
Signature
pencil l.c. Moore 31
OwnershipDavid and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: The Joel Starrels, Jr. Memorial Collection
More InformationThe broad weighty back of the central figure is reminiscent of the backs in Cézanne's series of female bathers, which Moore may have seen in 1922 (see HMF 26).