Discussing 'Two Standing Figures' and 'Standing Figures', two closely related drawings of the same year in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Moore Danowski Trust, Susan Compton in the 1988 Royal Academy exhibition catalogue says that Moore has "used colour in a different way from his earlier drawings, filling in the spaces between the figures, so emphasising the silhouettes which vary as much as the internal treatment. Evidently, Moore was searching for a new method of approaching upright figure sculptures, somewhat akin to the one that he had already developed for reclining figures.

This work is recorded at the Henry Moore Foundation under no. 1517A