Not on display
- Artist
- Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
- Medium
- Watercolour, gouache, chalk and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 181 × 270 mm
frame: 399 × 491 × 15 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1940
- Reference
- N05208
Catalogue entry
N05208 TWO SEATED FIGURES 1940
Inscr. ‘Moore 40’ b.r.
Pen, wash, chalk and gouache, 7 1/8×10 5/8 (18×27).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
Lit: Sylvester in Britain Today, November 1948, p.33.
Repr: Read, 1944, pl.169a; Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.225.
N05208 and N05209 are examples of a number of drawings of seated women executed shortly before and anticipating the shelter drawings (see N05706– N05713); one drawing of ‘Seated Figures’ was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, February 1940 (104).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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