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Ideas for Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture

Sketchbook
  • Page 28 from Sketchbook B
Datec.1935
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1217
Date Order NumberAG 35.28
Mediapencil
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 220 x 138 mm
Signatureunsigned, undated
Inscription

pencil (against drawings) ring in slate; Grooves/across; Stone/for/groove®/here/¯; (vertically) stone/with scoops/out; Learner carving

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information
The sketch is inscribed 'Learner carving' is the direct inspiration for Carving 1936 LH 164 in travertine marble. Of his drawings of ideas for sculpture Moore often remarked that the first view he drew became the dominant thought in his mind when carving. The free-flowing sketches and handwriting on the verso suggest they were drawn in the late 1940s.
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