Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Crowd Looking at a Tied-Up Object
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Crowd Looking at a Tied-Up Object
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2064
Date Order NumberAG 42.174
Dimensionspaper: 432 x 559 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.l. Moore/42
OwnershipThe British Museum, London: from the Estate of Lord Clark
More InformationMoore said that this drawing was inspired by sculptures covered in damp cloths to keep the clay moist. Wilkinson (1977) suggests that its source may have been a group of Nupe tribesmen in northern Nigeria standing before two large veiled cult objects, a photograph of which was in a book on tribal art, Kulturgeschichte Afrikas by Leo Frobenius, 1933, owned by Moore.
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