Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

photo: The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia

Sculptural Object in Landscape

Date1939

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 1441

Date Order NumberAG 39.2

Mediapencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, coloured crayon

Dimensionspaper: 375 x 546 mm

Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/39

OwnershipRobert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Collections

Henry Moore Catalogue Raisonné: 1930-1939

More Information

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.

Exhibitions

1972 Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Mostra di Henry Moore

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

2006 Barcelona, CaixaForum, Henry Moore

1941 Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Three British Artists

1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

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

1950 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Henry Moore

Published References

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, John Piper, Graham Sutherland.