Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ideas for Sculpture
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Ideas for Sculpture
Sketchbook
- Page from Sketchbook
Date1937
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1340
Date Order NumberAG 37.66
Mediapencil
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 273 x 179 mm
Signature
pencil l.c. Henry Moore
Inscription
pencil l.r. C (circled)/on/Reverse/Ideas for/drawings/1937
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More InformationThe drawings on the verso, particularly the two at the top, presage Moore's return to more naturalistic forms; only the small rapid sketches at the bottom are in any way abstract. In the inscription, the page reference is to Kulturgeschichte Afrikas by Leo Frobenius (1933) which contained photographs of ritual stones set in a Landscape. Five such stones are drawn at the centre of this page, and they reappear in other drawings of 1938 and 1939 such as HMF 1415 and 1456. See also comment on HMF 1388.
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