Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Poetess on Stage, at the End of Reading Her Poems
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Poetess on Stage, at the End of Reading Her Poems
Date1982
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 82(39)
Date Order NumberAG 82.37
PaperBockingford white wove
Dimensionspaper: 252 × 272 mm
Signature
ballpoint pen l.l. Moore, undated
Inscriptionon verso: ballpoint pen Poetess, on stage at the end/of reading her poems
pencil l.r. Sleep w (cut)
Ownershipunknown
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An exceptional subject for Moore, possibly inspired by the work of another (unidentified) artist which he had seen in some sale catalogue. The incomplete inscription seems to refer to a sleep walker.
