Drawing, Abstract Figures (Henry Moore 1898-1986)

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Drawing, Abstract Figures (Henry Moore 1898-1986)

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A drawing, chalk and wash on paper, dated to 1932, showing abstract figures. This work incorporates many of the most abiding concerns of Moore: the human body, his preference for organic, bony shapes, the use of the hole or cavity in the body and, in this drawing, his emerging interest in placing the figure in a landscape. The central figures in this work contain references to the work entitled The Helmet (1940) in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, UK, and the later totemic figures of the 1950s and 1960s. The small size of the head in the two central figures is also typical of his work. It is signed: Moore [19]32, on the bottom right.

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