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Drawing for Sculpture

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WA1944.88 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford<br>
If you wish to reproduce this ima…
Drawing for Sculpture
WA1944.88 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford<br>
If you wish to reproduce this ima…
WA1944.88 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford<br> If you wish to reproduce this image please also contact the <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/services/picturelibrary/" Target=_blank>Ashmolean Picture Library</a>. <br>To see this work please make an appointment with the <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/departments/westernart/printroom/">Ashmolean Western Art Print Room</a>.

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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