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Girl Reading and Figure Studies

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Girl Reading and Figure Studies
Girl Reading and Figure Studies
Girl Reading and Figure Studies

Girl Reading and Figure Studies

Sketchbook
  • Page from Sketchbook
Date1947
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2401
Date Order NumberAG 47-49.5
Mediapencil, wax crayon, chalk, watercolour wash, pen and ink
Papercream medium-weight
Dimensionspaper: 292 x 241 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/47

Inscription

pen and ink u.l. Sectional lines; l.c.l. Girl reading

OwnershipThe Museum of Modern Art, New York: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
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Sketchbook 1947-49 p.4. This more finished version of HMF 2400 portrays in an intimate domestic scene various members of Moore’s family: two studies of his daughter Mary sleeping, his sister Mary knitting, his niece Ann reading, and his wife Irina seated upper right, with their large white cat holding centre stage.
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