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Sketchbook
  • Page 89 from History of Sculpture Notebook
Date1920
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 20(45)
Date Order NumberAG 20.16anp
Mediapencil
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 229 x 180 mm
Inscription pencil; a [crossed through] for seriousness, for solemnity, for dignity of / impression, perhaps, but not for consolation. It is / a place neither for terrible nor consoling thoughts, / but of vague + wistful speculation.” – But mystic / as M.A was, even to the verge of quietism, drama / chimes forth premeninently [sic] throughout his career, / analysis one does not really require when touching / the heart of the man himself, the cardinal theme / of his emotion; the embodiment of his transcendant [sic] / art. He was the most dramatic of Italian sculptors, / + he was also the last survivor of the great generation.
OwnershipLeeds Museums and Galleries ( City Art Gallery, Leeds): Gift of Jocelyn Horner
ExhibitionsPublished References
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HMF 1223
c.1935
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HMF 1196 verso
c.1935
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HMF 837 verso
1930-31
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HMF 968 verso
1932
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HMF 1271a verso
c.1937
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HMF 18(1) verso
1918
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HMF 20(45) verso
1920
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HMF 20(47)
1920
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HMF 20(46)
1920
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HMF 20(46) verso
1920
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HMF 20(47) verso
1920
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HMF 319
1925