Woman Knitting

细节

Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Woman Knitting
signed and dated lower right 'Moore 49.'
gouache, watercolor, black chalk, colored wax crayons and pencil on paper laid down on stretched paper
29¾ x 22in. (75.5 x 56cm.)
Painted in 1949

来源

E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1955; acquired by Eleanor S. and John M. Shoenberg, 1958)

展览

St. Louis, City Art Museum, A Galaxy of Treasures from St. Louis Collections, Jan-Feb., 1961, no number

拍品专文

In the 1940s, Moore developed a distinctive drawing style in which he covered figures with overlapping lines that cling to the surface like those of a topographical map; thereby emphasizing the sculptural mass and plasticity of the figures. Moore once remarked, "Giotto's painting is the finest sculpture I've met in Italy" (quoted in A. Garrould, Henry Moore Drawings, New York, 1988, p. 13), and in these drawings he attempted to achieve a similar degree of sculptural presence within the limitations of two dimensions. Many of these drawings were associated with a project he was then planning for a sculpture group depicting a family; other works in this style represent the Three Fates spinning the Thread of Life. The present drawing of a woman knitting relates to this theme.