Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Drawing for Sculpture
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Drawing for Sculpture
Datec.1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1417 verso
Date Order NumberAG 38.31
Mediapencil
Papercream wove
Dimensionspaper: 114 x 177 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
Inscription
pencil c. Two points/touching
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More InformationWilkinson quotes David Sylvester and Robert Melville when discussing the sources of Moore's inspiration for his drawings of points practically touching, for example HMF 1496, and for the sculpture Three Points 1939-40 (LH 211). In 1952, standing below Michelangelo's Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel, Moore turned to Ann Garrould and remarked on the charge of electricity which seemed to flow between the two fingers, adding: 'It's a bit like what I intended in a sculpture I did just before the war - creating a sense of tension.'