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Drawing for Openwork Metal Sculpture
Details
Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Drawing for Openwork Metal Sculpture
signed 'Moore 51' (lower left); titled 'Helmet + Armour heads or open work heads' (along the top edge)
pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, brush and ink
11 3/8 x 9½in. (29 x 24cm.)
Executed in 1950-51
Drawing for Openwork Metal Sculpture
signed 'Moore 51' (lower left); titled 'Helmet + Armour heads or open work heads' (along the top edge)
pencil, wax crayon, watercolour wash, pen and ink, brush and ink
11 3/8 x 9½in. (29 x 24cm.)
Executed in 1950-51
Literature
A. Garrould (ed.), Henry Moore Complete Drawings 1950-76, IV, Aldershot 2003, p. 36, AG 50-51.40, HMF 2661 (illustrated p. 37).
Exhibited
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Henry Moore, 1953-1954, no. 59. This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst; Frankfurt, Städeslische Kunstinstitut; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie; Mannheim, Stätdische Kunsthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Göttingen, Stadverwaltung Göttingen and Berlin, Der Senat für Volksbildung.
Berlin, Kunstamt Reinickendorf, Henry Moore: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus den Jahren von 1929 bis 1962, 1963, no. 40. This exhibition later travelled to, Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt; Kalkum bei Düseldorf, Galerie Manfred Strake; Castrop-Rauxel, Kulturamt and Berlin, Kunstamt Tempelhof.
Norfolk, King's Lynn, King's Lynn Festival, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore at King's Lynn, 1964, no. 15.
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, 1966-1968, no. 55. This exhibition travelled to Lincoln, De Cordova Museum; New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Denver, Denver Museum of Art; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.
Berlin, Kunstamt Reinickendorf, Henry Moore: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus den Jahren von 1929 bis 1962, 1963, no. 40. This exhibition later travelled to, Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt; Kalkum bei Düseldorf, Galerie Manfred Strake; Castrop-Rauxel, Kulturamt and Berlin, Kunstamt Tempelhof.
Norfolk, King's Lynn, King's Lynn Festival, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore at King's Lynn, 1964, no. 15.
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore, 1966-1968, no. 55. This exhibition travelled to Lincoln, De Cordova Museum; New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Denver, Denver Museum of Art; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.
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