Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Drawing for Sculpture
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Drawing for Sculpture
Sketchbook
- Page from Long Sketchbook
Date1940
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1484
Date Order NumberAG 39-40.32
Dimensionspaper: 252 x 432 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/40
Inscription
pencil u.c. The human body is not solid (illegible)/but that is (illegible) more reason (words crossed through) for it to be a subject for/sculpture, it means that the sculptor cannot be a (cop)yist/but must make changes & recreate it./ (words crossed through); u.c.r. But (crossed through) The human body is what we know most about, because/its (sic) ourselves & so it moves us most strongly x we can make complete/identity with it/we pick out from the past 4 or 5 painters, one or two sculptors/it is the integrity dynamic which counts, as though his intention was so/tremendously important to him that it comes through (crossed through) shining through without being anywhere near achieved
OwnershipThe Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1941
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