Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Ideas for Sculpture
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Ideas for Sculpture
Date1932
Artist
Henry Moore
(British, 1898 - 1986)
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 982
Date Order NumberAG 32.94
Mediachalk, brush and ink
Dimensionspaper: 370 x 275 mm
Signature
(added later) pencil l.r. Moore/32
Ownershipprivate collection, UK
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The central half-figure at the top of the page is clearly an internal/external form, whilst the half-figure at lower right with its triangular breasts and rigid stick-like arms will be seen again in drawings done very early in 1933. The tense, angry expression of the head just to the left of this half-figure recalls medieval carvings such as Moore may have seen as a child at Methley church in Yorkshire.