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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

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