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Basement Shelter

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Basement Shelter
Basement Shelter
Basement Shelter

Basement Shelter

Sketchbook
  • Page 65 from Second Shelter Sketchbook
Date1940-41
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1690
Date Order NumberAG 40-41.133
Papercream lightweight
Dimensionspaper: 204 × 165 mm
Inscription

pen and ink l.c. Basement shelter

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of Irina Moore 1977
More Information

Second Shelter Sketchbook p.65. These figures have created their own world below the streets of London and are leading their private lives as though they were at home. The scene has echoes of Etruscan tomb sculpture.

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