Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Sword Hilt Sketchbook
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Sword Hilt Sketchbook
Datec.1973-74
Artwork TypeSketchbooks
Catalogue NumberSKB 75
Date Order NumberAG 73-74.1 to AG 73-74.15
Paperoff-white wove
Dimensionspaper: 123 × 80 mm
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
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Spiral-bound orange card-covered Baberton Junior notepad originally containing 40 sheets of off-white lightweight ruled paper 123 x 80mm. Twenty-one pages remain, of which 15 are drawn on; none is signed or numbered.
Moore was made a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France, in 1973. The regalia associated with this honour required a sword, for which Moore made a series of sketches for the hilt and pommel. The sword, made in silver by Cartier and incorporating the small Double Head 1928 LH 53 in bronze as the pommel, was presented to Moore in 1975.