This fourth volume to appear in the six-volume catalogue raisonne of Henry Moore's drawings deals with crucial decade in Moore's careen Now enjoying a steady income from his post as sculpture tutor at the Royal College of Art, he was able to devote more time to working on his own sculpture and drawings. It was at this time that Moore began his series of Transformation Drawings: objects trouves picked up on the coast of East Anglia while on holiday - lobster claws, animal bones, or pebbles with holes worn through by the action of the water which became in Moore's imagination reclining figures or mothers holding children. Some of these sketches were developed into the large sculptures of reclining figures with holes in their center which Moore is so well known for.
Pages
263
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Release
December 01, 1998
ISBN
0853316007
ISBN 13
9780853316008
Henry Moore: Complete Drawings 1930-39 (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) (Henry Moore Complete Drawings) (Henry Moore Complete Drawings)
This fourth volume to appear in the six-volume catalogue raisonne of Henry Moore's drawings deals with crucial decade in Moore's careen Now enjoying a steady income from his post as sculpture tutor at the Royal College of Art, he was able to devote more time to working on his own sculpture and drawings. It was at this time that Moore began his series of Transformation Drawings: objects trouves picked up on the coast of East Anglia while on holiday - lobster claws, animal bones, or pebbles with holes worn through by the action of the water which became in Moore's imagination reclining figures or mothers holding children. Some of these sketches were developed into the large sculptures of reclining figures with holes in their center which Moore is so well known for.