Watercolour, gouache, chalk and ink on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-moore-om-ch-1659" aria-label="More by Henry Moore OM, CH" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Moore OM, CH</a>
Two Seated Women
Purchased 1940
abstraction
actions: postures and motions
adults
bench
figure
from recognisable sources
furnishings
gestural
non-representational
objects
people
sitting
woman
paper unique watercolour gouache chalk ink
Two Seated Women
support: 181 × 270 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05209</b> TWO SEATED WOMEN 1940</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 40’ b.l.
<br/>Pen, wash, gouache and chalk, 7 1/8×10 5/8 (18×27).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Wakefield and Manchester, April–July 1949 (90); Arts Council, Tate Gallery, 1951 (136).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Sylvester in <i>Britain Today</i>, November 1948, p.33.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read, 1944, pl.169<i>b</i>; John Rothenstein, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1958, p.113 (in colour).</p>
<p>See <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-two-seated-figures-n05208" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05208</span></a>.</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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2004-07-21T00:00:00
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abstraction actions: postures and motions adults bench figure from recognisable sources furnishings gestural non-representational objects people sitting woman