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Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook

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Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook
Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook
Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook

Heads, Figures and Ideas Sketchbook

Date1956
Artwork TypeSketchbooks
Catalogue NumberSKB 62
Date Order NumberAG 56.1 to AG 56.14
Paperoff-white wove
Dimensionspaper: 292 × 242 mm
Ownershipdisbanded - see individual pages for ownership
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Red-brown cloth-covered boards containing off-white smooth medium-weight wove paper 292 x 242mm. A few pages are numbered (not by the artist) lower right on the recto, others similarly on the verso; no pattern to this numbering is discernible and it seems unlikely that these are page numbers.

Photographic evidence indicates that this sketchbook contained a substantial number of pages, some of which were drawn or reworked after the sketchbook was unbound. Fifty-four drawings are known to be from the sketchbook, and these are followed by four ascribed to it. A further four drawings HMF 2955-58 dated 1957 and four more HMF 2959, 2968-2970 dated 1958 may be from it and are to be found under these years.

As was the case with Unesco Notebook 1954-57 and Heads, Figures and Ideas Notebook 1955-56, some of the pages from this sketchbook were reproduced in Heads, Figures and Ideas 1958, the deluxe edition of which also contained mounted original drawings from the sketchbook.

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