Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
Heads and Ideas
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Heads and Ideas
Sketchbook
- Page 21/22 from Upright Sketchbook 1942
Date1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2020
Date Order NumberAG 42.119
Dimensionspaper: 180 x 255 mm
Signature
pen and ink l.r. Moore/42
Inscription
pen and ink over pencil u.l. Shadow across sculpture
Ownershipprivate collection, France
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Upright Sketchbook 1942 p.21. The large drawing of a woman’s head and shoulders on the recto is not a portrait, but what Moore later called an ‘imagined’ head. Referred to on HMF 2250 verso as SINGLE Reclining Figure half in shadow – S.21.
The circular object on the left-hand side of the page appears to be a drawing of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet with depictions of astrological constellations, dating back to 650BC, from the Library of Ashurbanipal, which Moore may have seen in the British Museum.
The circular object on the left-hand side of the page appears to be a drawing of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet with depictions of astrological constellations, dating back to 650BC, from the Library of Ashurbanipal, which Moore may have seen in the British Museum.
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