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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 2547
1949-50
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HMF 2551 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2566 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2555 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2568 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2887 verso
c.1937, c.1956
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HMF 2556 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2557 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2554 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2552 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2564 verso
1949-50
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HMF 2886 verso
c.1938, c.1956