Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Studies for 'Figures in a Shelter'
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Studies for 'Figures in a Shelter'
Sketchbook
- Page 9 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1634
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.77
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription
pencil u.c. Muck & masses, dismal, dramatic lit. scribbles & scratches. chaotic foreground; pen and ink l.c. Subjects for shelter drawings/Sleeping figures, arms in angles with heads. Heads in perspective from below/relaxed, innocent – abandoned – beatific abandon. Old men old women/Flood gates, Angular thin figure covered with old coat – Head to feet/sleepers – Aproned women – black bracered (sic) men. Sleeping heads/& round eyeballs
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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Second Shelter Sketchbook p.9.
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