STONE IV

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STONE IV 1977

Henry Moore (1898 – 1986)

Details

Dimension
29.2 X 19.7 CM
Media
ETCHING AND AQUATINT
Accession number
P5120

Summary

During 1977 Moore was approached by an Italian print publishing house with a request to produce a series of illustrations to Dante’s Rime petrose. Although this venture came to nothing the plates were made and later published as a group. The inspiration was not Dante’s text but a flint from the maquette studio, which was drawn in different positions and transformed to give an ambiguous illusion of female form. Moore reversed here his treatment of the Elephant Skull (P5062-P5069); there a large natural form is investigated from the inside, here a small insignificant stone is isolated, projected forward to appear forever turning. The Dante Stones album containing five etchings was printed by J C Editions Ltd, London in an edition of 50 and published by Raymond Spencer Company Ltd, Much Hadham in 1980.