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Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi'

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Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi'
Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi'
Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi'

Study after 'Venus of Grimaldi'

Date1926
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 459 verso
Date Order NumberAG 26.34
Mediapencil (rubbed)
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 222 x 172 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil top of page Figure - wide across -

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Notebook No.6 p.66 (originally p.72). The horse at upper right and sketches of suns or rayed wheels on the recto, as well as the Venus of Grimaldi, are all based on reproductions in Herbert Kuhn's Die Kunst der Primitiven (1923).

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