Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Sculptural Object in Landscape
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Sculptural Object in Landscape
Date1939
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1441
Date Order NumberAG 39.2
Dimensionspaper: 375 x 546 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/39
OwnershipRobert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, University of East Anglia, Norwich
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Long before buying Burcroft and its surrounding five acres in Kent, in 1935, Moore had visualised his sculpture set against nature. Here a massive bone form in the foreground dwarfs the three cows in the middle distance, but otherwise the landscape is hauntingly empty.
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