四种形式，雕塑绘画

T00271 FOUR FORMS, DRAWING FOR SCULPTURE 1938 Inscr. ‘Moore 38’ b.r. Chalk, wash and indian ink, 11×15 (28×38). Purchased from the Executors of the late E. C. Gregory (Grant-in-Aid) 1959. Coll: E. McKnight Kauffer, February 1939; E. C. Gregory. Exh: Mayor Gallery, February 1939 (6); Temple Newsam, Leeds, July–August 1941 (64); New York, Chicago and San Francisco, 1946–7 (68, repr. p.50); British Council tour, Australia, 1947–8 (23); British Council, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Berne, 1949–50 (64); The Meaning of Sculpture , Cape Town, 1952 (Part 2, No.56); The Modern Movement in British Water-Colour Painting , Norwich, December 1957–February 1958 (53). Lit: Neumann, 1959, p.70, repr. pl.41. Repr: Sweeney, 1946, p.50; Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.206. This is one of a number of drawings of sculptural forms in landscape settings made 1937–8. Writing in 1937 Henry Moore stated: ‘My drawings are done mainly as a help towards making sculpture - as a means of generating ideas for sculpture, tapping oneself for the original idea; and as a way of sorting out ideas and developing them’ ( Listener , 18 August 1937; reprinted in Read and Sylvester, op. cit. , p.xxxv). The form second from the left is identical with the small elm wood and string ‘Head’ of 1938 in the possession of Ernö Goldfinger (Read and Sylvester, op. cit. , p.12, No.188, repr. p.126; also repr. Neumann, 1959, pl.40); the other forms are related less closely to other sculptures of the same period. Published in: Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture , London 1964, II