Ideas for Sculpture

Sketchbook

Page from SQUARE FORMS NOTEBOOK

Date1934

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 1118

Date Order NumberAG 34.5

Mediapencil

Papercream lightweight wove

Dimensionspaper: 273 × 183 mm

Signature

unsigned, undated

OwnershipArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: gift of Henry Moore 1974

Collections

More Information

Wilkinson connects the sketch lower centre right on the recto with Mother and Child 1936 (LH 171). The third drawing from left at the top of the page is reminiscent of a 1927 carving Head of a Serpent (LH 45); Wilkinson links the same drawing to Sculpture 1935 (LH 161).

Exhibitions

1972 Florence, Forte di Belvedere, Mostra di Henry Moore

Published References

The Moore Collection in the Art Gallery of Ontario

Henry Moore: Complete Drawings, Volume 2, 1930-39: edited by Ann GARROULD.

The Drawings of Henry Moore

Henry Moore Remembered: the collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto