Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone
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Design for Edith Sitwell's Headstone
Datec.1966
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 3180c verso
Date Order NumberAG 66.70
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 290 x 240 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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From an unidentified sketchbook. Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, brothers of the poet Edith who had died in 1964, asked Moore to design a headstone for her grave in Weedon Lois, Northamptonshire. Moore's bronze Hand Relief No.1 1952 LH 354, showing the hand of a child holding that of an adult, is set into the stone. Moore attended the dedication of the headstone in November 1967.