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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Ideas for Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture

Sketchbook
  • Page from Sketchbook
Datec.1933
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1331
Date Order NumberAG 33.18
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 279 x 184 mm
Signature

(added later, misdated) pencil l.r. Moore 1937

Inscription

pencil u.l. reinforced concrete/cement/concrete/with armature/rounding up; u.r. eagle or vulture; c. top quick form angles

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information
Despite Moore's dating of this drawing, many years after he completed it, the cataloguer is convinced that it was executed in 1933. As with HMF 1330, Moore incorporated five of the small sketches on the recto of this drawing into the border around HMF 996. Also adding weight to a date of 1933 is the inscription reinforced concrete/cement/concrete, materials Moore was using in sculptures at the time - Compostion LH 133 and Reclining Figure LH 134, both of 1933, and Composition LH 140 of 1934. The drawing on the verso dates to some eighteen years after those on the recto. It is connected with Working Model for Reclining Figure 1951 (LH298) and may have been done from the sculpture.
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