Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Figure Studies
Figure Studies
unsigned, undated
pencil from top of page - NOTICE -/Sculpture - in the round - power of projection/& yet compact composition - Effect to be gained/by contrasts of masses & planes not by features etc/do figures without features - Abstract composition /of form-Contrasts of direction - & shapes of masses/WHOLE FIGURES/NO single Heads/Each work to live & (inserted above) in its own atmosphere, each/work a creation not an invention -/Mother & child - mother large hands head (inserted above) & breasts & child/across knee - poise & action intensified for expression -/Flying figures -/or carvings to hang/from ceiling by wire/probably/out of branch of/tree; The Trapezoids/in Mansfield; lower edge (upside down) Inspiration is Confidence -/Keep off realism but not reality -
Notebook No.3 p.213. The notes express thoughts which were to be guiding principles throughout Moore's career. He carved two sculptures in Mansfield stone during 1924-25, LH 24 and 25.