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Ideas for Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture

Datec.1938
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1391a verso
Date Order NumberAG 38.57
Mediapencil
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 277 × 381 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil u.l. Do a deep, dark red picture/rather like the one of mine/Sutherland bought/3 forms/& a much coloured one/like Geoffs (sic); u.r. Keep concentrated and all the time trying to improve the/drawing and conception; Grey mount

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: acquired 1990
More Information

See comment on HMF 1337. The recto of this page contains both the sketch for Reclining Figure LH 202 and the preliminary idea for HMF 1441, both of 1939, together with vignettes of sculpture, cows and sheep set in huge landscapes, most with very high horizons - one inscribed wide expanse of sky brings to mind seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters and also Eugène Boudin two centuries later. On the verso is a small sketch, the comment under which refers to HMF 1320, once in the collection of Geoffrey Grigson.

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