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HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
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HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)

Phemius Points Out the Gods to Telemachus

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HENRY MOORE, O.M., C.H. (1898-1986)
Phemius Points Out the Gods to Telemachus
signed, numbered and dated 'Moore 44 5.' (lower right), with inscription 'Illustration to Eddie's “The Rescue”' (lower left)
ink on paper
10 x 7 1⁄8 in. (25.5 x 18 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
Provenance
with The Morris Gallery, Toronto, where purchased by the present owners in April 1975.

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Lot Essay

This work is recorded in the Henry Moore Foundation database as HMF 2294a.


Phemius Points Out the Gods to Telemachus was an illustrative design for The Rescue, the printed edition of Edward Sackville-West’s melodramatic retelling of Homer’s Odyssey. Moore’s drawing illustrates the friendship between Phemius, an Ithacan poet, and Telemachus, the son of Odysseus.

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