Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
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Sketchbook
- Page 146 from Notebook No.4
Date1925
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 306
Date Order NumberAG 25.44
Paperoff-white laid
Dimensionspaper: 228 x 175 mm
Inscription
pencil top of page Composition - return of the prodigal son -/leave this -
OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Informationfurther inscription obliterated; Notebook No.4 p.146. In a letter to William Rothenstein, Principal of the Royal College of Art, written in March 1925, Moore said: 'I have a great desire - almost an ache for the sight of a tree that can be called a tree - for a tree with a trunk'.
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