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Date1925

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 309a verso

Date Order NumberAG 25.54

Paperoff-white laid

Dimensionspaper: 228 x 175 mm

Inscriptionpencil from top of page Drawings of Single figures for sculpture./ Remember I am a sculptor-that painting/isn't sculpture-though the two have a common/basis, form-the mediums of (crossed through) are widely different./Renaisance sculpture is compartively weak because/it is too closely allied to painting--/Orcagna (painter & sculpture) Giotto etc.-/Humanity & form- Abstraction as pure abstraction/(simplification -austerity etc, etc/false-synthesis etc is only there (last two words crossed through) used instinctively/in primative art to (vitalise) intensify emotional/expression- The milk of human kindness-the spirit/behind (Thomas Hardy)-/Don't forget what Drawing is - Ha.Ha!/Take life drawings & impro (crossed through) treat them as pieces/of sculpture-work on them afterwards-/The individual mediums in the greatest works of sculpture & painting give the works of each an organic existence of (crossed through) & pe (crossed through) beauty/peculiar to itself/(two words crossed through)

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977

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