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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R312
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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook (Paperback, New edition)

Henry Moore, Kenneth Clark

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Reissued to coincide with Henry Moore's centenary, this book (which first appeared in 1980) is a facsimile of the sketchbook which the artist produced in 1972. Drawing the sheep which grazed outside the window of his studio in the English countryside, Moore produced a series of delightful studies. Solid in form, sudden and vigorous in movement, Moore's sheep are created through a network of swirling and zigzagging lines in rapid and sensitive ballpoint pen drawings. The effect is both familiar and monumental - recalling the artist's sculpture - and they confirm Moore's status as an accomplished draughtsman. (Kirkus UK)
In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition at Florence. In search of peace and quiet, he went into a smaller room overlooking the fields where a local farmer grazed his sheep. The sheep came very close to the window, attracting his attention, and he began to draw them. Initially he saw them as nothing more than four-legged balls of wool, but his vision changed as he explored what they were really like - the way they moved, the shape of their bodies under the fleece. They also developed strong human and biblical associations, and the sight of a ewe with her lamb evoked the mother-and-child theme - a large form sheltering a small one - which has been important to Henry Moore in all his work. He drew the sheep again that summer after they were shorn, when he could see the shapes of the bodies which had been covered by wool. Solid in form, sudden and vigorous in movement, Henry Moore's sheep are created through a network of swirling and zigzagging lines in the rapid and (in Moore's hands) sensitive medium of ballpoint pen. The effect is both familiar and monumental; as Lor

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Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2003
First published: September 2008
Authors: Henry Moore • Kenneth Clark
Dimensions: 205 x 250 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-500-28072-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
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LSN: 0-500-28072-X
Barcode: 9780500280720

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