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Ideas for Sculpture: Study for 'Mother and Child' Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture: Study for 'Mother and Child' Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture: Study for 'Mother and Child' Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture: Study for 'Mother and Child' Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture: Study for 'Mother and Child' Sculpture

Date1934-35
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1135 verso
Date Order NumberAG 34-35.8
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 197 x 178 mm
Signatureunsigned, undated
Inscription

pencil top of page Both for grown ups & children - & anyhow in time the children/will grow up, though it(s reall crossed through) children not having such fixed opinions (added above) are likely to accept & respond/directly to a/new conception (before crossed through) than adults (will crossed through); u.c. Balance

OwnershipArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: gift of Henry Moore 1974
More Information

Wilkinson links some sketches on the recto to two works of 1934, Carving (LH 148) and Two Forms (LH 153). The lower sketch on the right-hand side of the verso is connected with Mother and Child 1936 (LH 165).

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