Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Study after Michelangelo's 'Virgin Annunciate'
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Study after Michelangelo's 'Virgin Annunciate'
Date1921
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 28a verso
Date Order NumberAG 21.1
Mediapencil, pen and ink
Dimensionspaper: 220 x 170 mm
Signature
(added later) pencil l.r. Moore/21
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
Collections
Notebook No.1 p.7. Moore probably carried this sketchbook with him on visits to the British Museum. The unidentified crouching figure sits on two forms copied from a Maya relief panel from the Temple of the Sun, Palenque, a cast of which was in the British Museum from the early 1900s. The verso sketches are after drawings by Michelangelo of between 1550 and 1560: the Virgin Annunciate (BM W.71) and studies of legs (BM W.73).