Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Standing Figures
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Standing Figures
Date1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1384
Date Order NumberAG 38.51
Dimensionspaper: 359 x 359 mm
Signature
(probably added later) l.r. Moore/38
OwnershipJohannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg: purchased 1948
Collections
The figure lower left has already been included in earlier drawings, see for example HMF 1337. In this narrative drawing the four figures on the left confront the isolated mother and child on an otherwise empty stage. Moore often said that good art should demand an effort on the part of the spectator; this drawing invites him to create a story involving the dramatis personae.