Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Drawing for Metal Sculpture
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Drawing for Metal Sculpture
Date1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1382
Date Order NumberAG 38.48
Dimensionspaper: 381 x 559 mm
Signature
l.r. Moore/38
Ownershipunknown
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This drawing peopled with many familiar figures has a narrative quality very rarely found in Moore's work. The two groups in the foreground seem to be confronting each other with a crowd in the background looking on. In its disposition of the dramatis personae, it is reminiscent of paintings by Giotto, an artist who had impressed Moore greatly during his 1925 visit to Italy.