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Study for 'Shelter Drawing'

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Study for 'Shelter Drawing'
Study for 'Shelter Drawing'
Study for 'Shelter Drawing'

Study for 'Shelter Drawing'

Sketchbook
  • Page 12 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1637
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.80
Mediapencil, wax crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription

pencil u.l. (half in shadow/cramped); u.c. Bunks with women sleeping & feeding children –

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore
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Second Shelter Sketchbook p.12. Moore may have had in his subconscious Dürer's woodcuts Apocalypse or The Knight, Death and the Devil when drawing these skeletal figures; the unusual shade of green adds to their disturbing quality. In the enlarged version HMF 1792 Moore softened the figures, making them less threatening.

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