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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers

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photo: The Higgins, Bedford
Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers
photo: The Higgins, Bedford
photo: The Higgins, Bedford

Shelter Scene: Bunks and Sleepers

Date1941
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1790
Date Order NumberAG 41.45
Dimensionspaper: 483 x 432 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.l. Moore/41

OwnershipTrustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery (The Higgins Bedford): purchased with the aid of a grant from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund
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The zigzag rope threaded between the upper and middle bunks may reflect Moore's preoccupation with the spaces created in his series of stringed figure sculptures of the late 1930s.

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