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Ideas for Sculpture

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Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture
Ideas for Sculpture

Ideas for Sculpture

Datec.1934
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1140b
Mediapencil
Papercream medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 184 x 140 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil u.l. or mother & child; u.c. If I try to think of what effect (having had crossed out) (upon me inserted) a piece of great Mexican etc/sculpture at my school (would have had inserted) – always for me to see, or say a piece of/sculpture by Brancusi who would have then been about 40 – I shouldn't/have wanted something & should immediately have accepted & then dismissed –/but something which even might puzzle people & (make them crossed out) challenge/their preconceived ideas – would be/more likely to keep/their interest; c.l. Symbolic; l.l. or the danger is that people should be looking/on for the literary story, or so taken with the literary/interpretation that they (do not crossed out) are never open to the/sculptural meaning & significance./a poet is a person who inspires rather than who is/inspired

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
ExhibitionsPublished References