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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

September 3rd, 1939

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September 3rd, 1939
September 3rd, 1939
September 3rd, 1939

September 3rd, 1939

Date1939
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1551
Date Order NumberAG 39.35
Paperheavyweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 306 x 398 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.l. Moore/Sept.3rd/1939

Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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The only drawing in Moore's oeuvre which bears the full date - the day on which Britain declared war on Germany. The faces of the figures in the drawing reflect the anxiety that pervaded the nation on the day war was declared. That morning Moore, his wife and Bernard Meadows had gone swimming below Shakespeare Cliff near Dover, the scene for the composition. Reluctant to begin any new carvings on account of the war. Moore turned his attention to drawing and did not return to sculpture until 1943.
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