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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Ideas for Sculpture: Seated Figures

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Ideas for Sculpture: Seated Figures
Ideas for Sculpture: Seated Figures
Ideas for Sculpture: Seated Figures

Ideas for Sculpture: Seated Figures

Date1932
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 965 verso
Date Order NumberAG 32.76
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 234 x 200 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil l.r. (upside down) seated figures

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

Wilkinson notes that this drawing, 'one of the earliest examples in Moore's work in which the body is conceived of as a hollow external shell', anticipates the internal/external form sculptures LH 294-299 of 1951-54.

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