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Figure Studies: Thirty-Nine Ideas for Sculpture and Drawing

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Figure Studies: Thirty-Nine Ideas for Sculpture and Drawing
Figure Studies: Thirty-Nine Ideas for Sculpture and Drawing
Figure Studies: Thirty-Nine Ideas for Sculpture and Drawing

Figure Studies: Thirty-Nine Ideas for Sculpture and Drawing

Date1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1391
Date Order NumberAG 38.56
Dimensionspaper: 273 x 375 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/38

Inscription

pen and ink near drawings wood; sculpture in landscape; sculpture & figures & architecture; Two forms one (illegible); procession in architecture; Figures in railway station; Two seated figures; Figures in architecture; opening door; opening door

Ownershipprivate collection, Switzerland
More Information
This sheet of drawings was detached from the same notebook as that used for HMF 1391a and probably for HMF 1936, the latter having been torn in half whereas the first two were merely folded: see comment on HMF 1337. On the left-hand section here, three physically tiny sketches have a monumental quality, invoking a feeling of immense space especially in the one under which Moore wrote Sculpture in landscape; the other two are entitled Sculpture & figures & architecture and procession in architecture. The drawings on the right-hand section contain the seeds of Moore's Pen exercises of the early 1970s.
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