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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

Date1939
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1437
Date Order NumberAG 39-40.26
Dimensionspaper: 432 x 254 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/39

Inscription

pencil u.c. Do drawings in interiors/of string ideas/etc/&draw/them/from/real/thing; u.r. safety pin/magic/table/in/odd/settin(g) (g has been removed when drawing trimmed or over-mounted)

Ownershipunknown
More Information

One of Moore's very few incursions into the truly surreal world is at upper right; another, with a 'nose' resembling the rose of a watering can, is alongside a sketched version of a 1938 carving, Stringed Figure (LH 190).

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