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Study for 'Pink and Green Sleepers'

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Study for 'Pink and Green Sleepers'
Study for 'Pink and Green Sleepers'
Study for 'Pink and Green Sleepers'

Study for 'Pink and Green Sleepers'

Sketchbook
  • Page 67 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1692
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.135
Mediapencil, wax crayon, watercolour, wash, pen and ink, gouache
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription

pencil u.c. blanket/heads v. foreshortened/Child's crayon background & pencil instead of tube colour; pen and ink (over inscription in pencil) l.c. Sleeping Mother & child

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
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Second Shelter Sketchbook p.67. Moore squared up for enlargement the top section of the drawing, which is the basis for four larger studies HMF 1842-1845. The marked foreshortening of the head upper left calls to mind Mantegna's Agony in the Garden (1459) which Moore would have seen in the National Gallery, London.

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