Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Sketch for House Rising Tier after Tier
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Sketch for House Rising Tier after Tier
Date1944
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2293 verso
Date Order NumberAG 44.29
Dimensionspaper: 210 x 165 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
Inscription
pencil u.l. (7); u.r. abacus/(. . . crossed through); u.l. Odysseus house at sunset/(Odysseus looking at it)/He sits on Irus's (sic) bag – (or bundle) by the sullied wall/the house is on a terraced hill of olive trees – but/set amongst cypress & black poplars & myrtle/"House rising tier after tier, like a lifted face against the evenings/violet disc. Those slender pillars crowned with sunset, that/armour of stone for my love – certain & grave & clear as a ship/afloat in its own sea of cypress & black poplars & myrtle/Apollo now dying his daily death sheds his blood on the broad/step across the column's well turned abacus & pours his/scarlet flood in at the very door"
OwnershipThe Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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