Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Two Reclining Figures
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Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Two Reclining Figures
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2071
Date Order NumberAG 42.181
Dimensionspaper: 432 x 572 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/42
OwnershipPhiladelphia Museum of Modern Art
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The foreground figure in this stark, dune-like setting was to be cast in lead as LH 256 in 1945; the other has echoes of a reclining figure of 1939, LH 202 also in lead, and looks ahead to LH 266 1946-47, in brown Hornton stone.