Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Sculptural Ideas, Hollow Form
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Sculptural Ideas, Hollow Form
Date1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1378
Date Order NumberAG 38.45
Dimensionspaper: 381 × 560 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/38
OwnershipArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney: gift of the Contemporary Art Society, Sydney 1948
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All the ideas in this drawing are found first in a 1937 sketch HMF 1332 verso. The object second from the right resembling an Egyptian mummy-case became an important element in Moore's internal/external form drawings of the 1940s and later in sculptures such as LH 295 of 1951.