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Ideas for Sculpture: Seven Seated Figures

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photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
Ideas for Sculpture: Seven Seated Figures
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chica…
photograph © 2018 courtesy of The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

Ideas for Sculpture: Seven Seated Figures

Date1931
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 865
Date Order NumberAG 31.31
Mediapencil, watercolour wash, brush and ink, pen and ink
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
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The 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).

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