Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Figure Studies
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Figure Studies
Date1922-24
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 116 verso
Date Order NumberAG 22-24.32
Mediapencil, chalk
Papercream lightweight laid
Dimensionspaper: 224 x 172 mm
Signature
unsigned, undated
Inscription
pencil top of page Crawling figure
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More InformationNotebook No.3 p.89. The study of a walnut shell on the verso looks ahead to the Transformation drawings of the early 1930s in which Moore developed natural forms such as a pebble or a lobster claw into a human figure.