Chalk and ink on paper
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Standing Nude
Purchased 1950
actions: postures and motions
adults
back
body
figure
figure
nudes
people
standing
paper unique chalk ink
Standing Nude
support: 559 × 241 mm
Purchased 1950
<p><b>N05950</b> STANDING NUDE <i>c.</i> 1925</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore’ t.r.
<br/>Pen and chalks, 22×9 1/2 (56×24).
<br/>Purchased from the Hanover Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1950.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> (?) Arnold Haskell; R.E.A. Wilson, sold to K.J. Hewett, <i>c.</i> 1949; sold to Hanover Gallery 1950.</p>
<p>In a letter of 3 September 1957 the artist wrote that he thought the date of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> was 1925, though an earlier note in the Tate Gallery's files dates it 1923–4; it is similar in character to a number of drawings made in the later 1920s, e.g. <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-standing-figure-t00059" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T00059</span></a> (see also those repr. Read, 1944, pls. 113–15, and Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, pp.172–7).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults back body figure figure nudes people standing