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Miners under Ground

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Miners under Ground
Miners under Ground
Miners under Ground

Miners under Ground

Sketchbook
  • Page 9 verso from Coalmining Notebook A
Date1941-42
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1871 verso
Date Order NumberAG 41-42.9
Mediacrayon
Dimensionspaper: 127 x 200 mm
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Coalmining Notebook A p.9. The central figure on the recto recalls Masaccio's fresco The Tribute Money in the Brancacci chapel of S. Maria del Carmine, Florence. Moore visited the chapel daily during his time in Florence in 1925, and would have become familiar with the crouching figure of St Peter, prising open the fish's mouth to extract the tribute money.

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