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Ideas for Sculpture and Lyre Birds

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Ideas for Sculpture and Lyre Birds
Ideas for Sculpture and Lyre Birds
Ideas for Sculpture and Lyre Birds

Ideas for Sculpture and Lyre Birds

Sketchbook
  • Page [16] from Sketchbook with Square Forms and Lyre Birds
Date1936, 1942
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1290
Date Order NumberAG 36-72.14
Papertextured off-white medium-weight wove
Dimensionspaper: 178 x 250 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

chalk u.l. 2 (circled)

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977
More Information

Redrawn 1942. Again, Moore has superimposed drawings of ideas for sculpture on rapid sketches of Lyre birds - one almost senses his feeling that the drawing on HMF 1286 could not be bettered. The second drawing from the left in the top line can be linked to Square Form 1936 (LH 167).

ExhibitionsPublished References
Square Form Lyre Birds
HMF 1286
1936, 1942, 1972
Lyre Birds
HMF 1287
1936, 1942
Reclining Figures and Lyre Birds
HMF 1296
1936, c.1938, 1942
Square Forms and Lyre Birds Sketchbook
SKB 25
1936,c.1938,1942,1972
Lyre Bird
HMF 1285
1936, 1942, 1972
Lyre Bird
HMF 1284
1936, 1942, 1972
Studies of Birds
HMF 121
1922-24
Three Studies of Birds
HMF 453 verso
1926
Studies of Birds
HMF 454
1926
Studies of Birds
HMF 454 verso
1926