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Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum

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Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum
Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum
Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum

Studies of Sculpture in the British Museum

Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 123 verso
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.39
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil u.c. abstraction; directions/& poising of weights; c. Too thin

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

Notebook No.3 p.105. On the recto Moore drew the standing figure of a woman from Mumuye in northern Nigeria. In the 1980s he bought a similar Mumuye sculpture which he also sketched, see HMF 83(8), 83(9) and 83(41).

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