drawing
- Museum number
- 1988,0305.5
- Description
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Study for sculpture 'Two Women'; two abstract forms of women, combining wood and metal. 1939
Bodycolour over graphite, charcoal and coloured chalks
- Production date
- 1939
- Dimensions
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Height: 449 millimetres
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Width: 377 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Moore's interest in the relationship between internal and external forms emerged in the mid-1930s, influenced by Surrealism and, in this case, by his studies of a Malagan figure from New Ireland in the British Museum.
Ann Baer has pointed out that a facsimile of this drawing in collotype was published by Ganymed in the late 1940s. This shows that the pink of the drawing has considerably faded in the intervening years.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1998 Oct-Dec, Norwich UEA, 'Henry Moore: Friendships and Influences'
2000/1 Dec-Feb, BM Great Court, Human Image
2008/9 Sep-Jan, BM, British Sculptors' Drawings, no cat.
2010 Feb-Aug, London, Tate Britain, Henry Moore
2011 Mar-June, Leeds Art Gallery, Henry Moore
- Acquisition date
- 1988
- Acquisition notes
- Accepted by H M Government (the Treasury Commissioners of Inland Revenue) in lieu of tax on the estate of the late Lord Clark of Saltwood and allocated to the British Museum.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1988,0305.5