Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Two Reclining Figures
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Two Reclining Figures
Date1973, c.1977
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 3203 verso
Paperoff-white medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 176 x 254 mm
Signature(added later): ballpoint pen l.r. Moore, undated
Inscription
pencil l.c. Alistair ¯
Ownershipprivate collection, USA
Collections
Red Notebook 1969-77 p.23. Both recto and verso were originally drawn in 1973 and used as the basis for the etching CGM 377 of 1974. They were reworked later, probably in 1977, when Moore was selecting subjects for the etchings and aquatints of The Reclining Figure album CGM 471-481. The verso was also a study for HMF 79(61), itself later the basis for the lithograph CGM 719. A number of pages in this notebook are inscribed Alistair, referring to Alistair Grant, Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London, and co-author of the four-volume catalogue raisonné of Moore's graphic work, who was involved in the proofing of CGM 471-481.