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Ideas for Wood Sculpture

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Ideas for Wood Sculpture
Ideas for Wood Sculpture
Ideas for Wood Sculpture

Ideas for Wood Sculpture

Sketchbook
  • Page from Sketchbook of Wood Constructions
Date1934
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1137 verso
Date Order NumberAG 34.71
Mediapencil
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 275 x 188 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information

The drawing in the bottom left-hand corner of the recto is closely linked with HMF 1084 and might have been the basis for the larger finished drawing, subsequently dated 1934. At first glance these sketches seem to be rather uncomfortable angular abstractions; after a few moments it becomes possible to discern human elements - a head, arms, legs - which build up into a reclining figure or mother and child.

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