Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures
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Ideas for Sculpture: Reclining Figures
Date1933
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 997
Date Order NumberAG 33.20
Dimensionspaper: 388 x 562 mm
Signaturepencil l.r. MOORE/33
OwnershipArt Institute of Chicago: gift of Mr and Mrs Joseph R. Shapiro
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Two figures at the bottom of the page, at the extreme left and second from the right, are decorated with a motif which resembles the veins of a leaf. Moore used the leaf theme in later drawings, see for example HMF 2741 of 1952, and in several sculptures of 1953, Leaf Figure LH 323-326.