Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Four Forms

Date1938

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 1379

Date Order NumberAG 38.46

Mediachalk, crayon, wash, pen and ink

Dimensionspaper: 279 x 381 mm

Signature

l.r. Moore/38

OwnershipThe Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London: purchased 1959

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The stringed object second from left could be the definitive drawing for Head 1938 (LH 188), but it might equally have been drawn from the sculpture. The central dark vortex with the lighter area above foreshadows Architecture 1971 (CGM 169).

Exhibitions

2001-02 Dallas, San Francisco & Washington, Henry Moore: Sculpting in the 20th Century

1946-47 New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Henry Moore - MoMA tour

2010 London, Tate Britain, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario & Leeds, Leeds City Art Gallery, Henry Moore

1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

2005 Mexico City, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Henry Moore y Mexico

1941 Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland

1950 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Henry Moore

2012 Moscow, Kremlin, Henry Moore at the Moscow Kremlin

2016-17 Münster, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Henry Moore: a European Impulse

Published References

Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings 1921-1969.

The Drawings of Henry Moore

Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings: 3rd edition, with an introduction by Herbert Read

Henry Moore Drawings.

The Archetypal World of Henry Moore; translated from the German by R.F.C. HULL.

Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Volume 2, 1930-39: edited by Ann GARROULD.

Exposition Henry Moore: sculptures, dessins. (Henry Moore Exhibition: sculptures, drawings).

Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings; with an introduction by Herbert Read

Henry Moore, Volume One: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948: 4th edition, edited by David SYLVESTER, with an introduction by Herbert READ.

Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture

Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland.

Henry Moore.

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