Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Two Ideas for Sculpture
Two Ideas for Sculpture
unsigned, undated
pencil top of page Sculptors Drawings/To make the (subject have a crossed out) object drawn capable of having a far side (to s crossed out) to it, (that is to make it/an object in space &/not (only/in relief crossed out)/half/only/object/in relief/only/half/an object added at right edge) (it is/necessary to fake it penetrate crossed out) behind the surface of the/paper – (that is to destroy crossed out) it is necessary to give/it the possibility of an existence (inside the behind crossed out) beyond/the surface of the paper – & so (the crossed out) it is/(it almost) essential to break up the (even added) flatness/of the paper/Any wash, smudge, shading, (lines, make the/paper crossed out) anything breaking the tyranny of the flat/plane of the paper, opens up (for him added) a (spacial possibily (sic) crossed out)/suggestion, a possibily (sic) of space.
Sketchbook 1950-51 p.123. A revised handwritten version of the notes on the verso is reproduced in Felix H. Man, Eight European Artists (Heinemann, London 1954, n.p.); see Alan Wilkinson, Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations, Lund Humphries 2002, p.237.