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Sleeping Child Covered with Blanket

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Sleeping Child Covered with Blanket
Sleeping Child Covered with Blanket
Sleeping Child Covered with Blanket

Sleeping Child Covered with Blanket

Sketchbook
  • Page 63 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1688
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.131
Mediapencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription

wax crayon u.c. Sleeping child; pen and ink covered with blanket

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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Second Shelter Sketchbook p.63. These tender sketches of a sleeping child were echoed over thirty-five years later in Moore's studies of his grandson asleep, see HMF 77(41), 78(63).

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