Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Seated Figure and Pointed Forms

Datec.1939

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 1497

Date Order NumberAG 39-40.46

Mediapencil, crayon, chalk, watercolour, pen and ink

Dimensionspaper: 432 x 254 mm

Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/39

Inscription

pencil u.c. Lubetkin pillars (caryatids); c.l. (upside down) points/meeting; c. Draw solid forms (draw mother & child string one)/S.P.

Ownershipunknown

Collections

Henry Moore Catalogue Raisonné: 1930-1939

More Information

The date for this drawing is often given as 1940 (see the above publications) but the inscription concerning Lubetkin (see HMF 1332) and Moore's contemporaneous signature makes the previous year more likely. The upright motif lower right resembling an arrowhead also appears in HMF 1476.

Exhibitions

1950 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Henry Moore

1941 Leeds, Temple Newsam House, Henry Moore, John Piper, Graham Sutherland

1950 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Henry Moore

1941 Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Three British Artists

Published References

Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings: 3rd edition, with an introduction by Herbert Read

Henry Moore Drawings.

Henry Moore, Volume One: Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948: 4th edition, edited by David SYLVESTER, with an introduction by Herbert READ.

Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Volume 2, 1930-39: edited by Ann GARROULD.

Henry Moore: sculpture and drawings 1921-1969.

The Drawings of Henry Moore