Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
No.2 Drawing Book
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No.2 Drawing Book
Date1930-34
Artwork TypeSketchbooks
Catalogue NumberSKB 15
Date Order NumberAG 30-34.1 to AG 31.11
Papercream lightweight wove
Dimensionspaper: 161 × 201 mm
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Grey-green paper-covered notebook originally containing one signature of cream lightweight wover paper 162 x 201mm. The cover has the words THE JUNIOR/DRAWING BOOK/NAME:/PHILIP & TRACEY, L.T.D., LONDON, S.W.9 printed in dark grey across the centre of the front and is inscribed in pencil on the left side vertically For Extra (inserted above) drawings (some mother & child) most/Two reclining figures. On the front cover top right is a circled 2 in ballpoint pen (not in the artist's hand) which gives the notebook its title. Only seven pages, HMF 841-847, remain bound and three others, HMF 838-840, have been ascribed to the notebook.