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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

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Sketchbook
  • unnumbered page from Heads, Figures and Ideas Notebook
Date1955-56
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2812a verso
Date Order NumberAG 55-56.69
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pencil UNESCO; (Julian H); Theme – The passing-on by humanity of the Education Science/& Culture in UNESCO – (all the higher things in life)/to the succeeding generation – in the hope that the/generation will both enjoy & employ them better; One or more PARENT figures/& CHILD/Perhaps 3 or 4 mother figures representing/the main regions of the world/bending (. . .) towards a child figure representing/growing humanity; M/M C M = •/• • •; or 2 parent or mother figures/with child between them –/The child perhaps not looking at them but/turning its face upwards (with upstretched arms too)/or a large group of figures representing/different human cultures

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information

Heads, Figures and Ideas Notebook (unnumbered page).

ExhibitionsPublished References
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HMF 55-56(17)
1955-56
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HMF 55-56(10)
1955-56
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HMF 55-56(9)
1955-56
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HMF 70/74(10)
1970-74
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HMF 93
1922-24
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HMF 94
1922-24
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HMF 109
1922-24
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HMF 105
1922-24
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HMF 91
1922-24
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HMF 97b
1922-24
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HMF 110a
1922-24
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HMF 295b
1925