Henry Moore (1898-1986)
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Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Sheep and Two Lambs

已結束2016年2月3日

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Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Sheep and Two Lambs
signed 'Moore 81' (lower right)
black ball-point pen on paper
8 x 11 3/8 in. (19.9 x 29 cm.)
Drawn in 1981

Waddington Galleries, London.
Leslie Ogden, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.

專家說明

The present work stems from the artist's White Notebook, a sketchbook originally containing 48 pages of drawings of landscapes and interiors executed between 1975 and 1981.

Moore first found a subject in sheep in 1972. One of his studios at Much Hadham had a window overlooking a large field grazed by sheep, and the artist found them a ready subject matter. The sheep continued to fascinate Moore over the next ten years, even to the extent that he would recognise which ones he had already drawn: 'I began to recognise the individual sheep over a time, I would know that I'd drawn that one already and that one I hadn't' (H. Moore, Henry Moore, My Ideas, Inspiration and Life as an Artist, London, 1986, p. 192).