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Sketchbook

Inside Back Cover from Notebook No.4

Date1925

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 320

Date Order NumberAG 25.65

Paperoff-white laid

Dimensionspaper: 228 x 175 mm

Inscriptionpen and ink from top of page Remember the spirit of Massacio; pencil Page 155; pen and ink Massacio (sic)-/Giotto-/Rembrandt-/Get out new lists of subjects; u.r. Mexican & Egyptian/Sculpture; pencil Get right/inside/every subject/-live it-; -Character-of life-note/mechanism/Personall get connection with life./The greatest works/are not those violently/Negro or violently Mexican/or Egyptian-but those/of all time & no violent/nationality; upside down Size of Hornton stone/37" x 15" x 12"

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977

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