Henry Moore OM, CH

Two Seated Figures

1940

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Artist: Henry Moore OM, CH 1898–1986
Medium: Watercolour, gouache, chalk and ink on paper
Dimensions: Support: 181 x 270 mm
frame: 399 x 491 x 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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