Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

Notes on Donatello

Sketchbook

Page 17 from Giovanni Pisano Notebook 1958-59

Date1957-59

Artist Henry Moore (British, 1898 - 1986)

Artwork TypeDrawing

Catalogue NumberHMF 57-59(13)

Mediapencil

Papergraph

Dimensionspaper: 175 × 120 mm

Signatureunsigned, undated

Inscriptionpencil u.l 1(circled) Donatello developed the first style of/old age in the history of art./Donatello's St John (the evangelist) like the/Moses of Michelangelo, is an interior vision/2(circled) hewn out in marble, not a work continued from/the outside

OwnershipThe Henry Moore Foundation: gift of the artist 1977

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