Edition Summary

Woodcut
Edition of 50 on Japon nacré (numbered1/50 to 50/50)
10 Artist's proofs, numbered I/X to X/X

Printer: Fequet and Baudier, Paris, 1962
Publisher: Gérald Cramer, Geneva
Date published: 1966

No direct source has been identified for the imagery in CGM 1 but stylistically it relates to various works of the early 1930s such as Drawing for Sculpture: Figure in a Landscape 1933 (HMF 1012). A few early proofs of the woodcuts are extant and one cut-out of CGM 2 was used by Moore as the centre figure in Montage of Reclining Figures 1933 (HMF 999). The original drawing, in pencil and wash, for CGM 2 was also incorporated in a collage – compiled by Irina Radetsky a year before her marriage to Moore – appearing the opposite way round, lower right, in Montage of Reclining Figures 1928 (HMF 689).