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The Artist’s Hand
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Artists Hand II
Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist - non-specific
artist, draughtsman
artist, printmaker
artist, sculptor
arts and entertainment
birth to death
body
English
hand
hands clasped
man, old
Moore, Henry
named individuals
nationality
old age
people
portraits
self-portraits
society
work and occupations
<p>Henry Moore's subject is the aged body. He made these drawings of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health. 'Hands can convey so much' he said, 'they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content or anxiety. They can be young or old, beautiful or deformed'.</p><p>Moore saw these prints as belonging  to a long tradition of fascination with hands as vehicles of expression: 'Throughout the history of sculpture  and painting one can find that artists  have shown through the hands the feelings they wished to represent.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper print etching
28 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-10-28
Self Evident
Collection based display
The Artist’s Hand II
image: 190 × 254 mm
Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986
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Henry Moore's subject is the aged body. He made these <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>drawings</span></a> of his own hands when he was eighty-one and suffering from ill-health. 'Hands can convey so much' he said, 'they can beg or refuse, take or give, be open or clenched, show content or anxiety. They can be young or old, beautiful or deformed'.</p>
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Moore saw these <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> as belonging <br/>
to a long tradition of fascination with hands as vehicles of expression: 'Throughout the history of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculpture</span></a> <br/>
and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> one can find that artists <br/>
have shown through the hands the feelings they wished to represent.'</p>
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<p><i>This catalogue entry discusses a group of works; details of the individual work are given at the end of the introductory text.</i><span>
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<p><b>Henry Moore O.M., C.H.</b><span>
1898-1986 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-mary-and-martha-p02838" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02838</span></a> - <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-rhinoceros-head-p02932" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02932</span></a> </span>
<br/><span>Gift of ninety-five <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> made between 1970 and 1984. This is the latest part of Henry Moore's ongoing gift to the Tate Gallery's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>Print</span></a> Collection of one copy of almost every impression he made. The previous donation was in 1982. The ninety-five prints were presented by the Henry Moore Foundation in 1985. </span>
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<br/><span>Henry Moore's complete graphic oeuvre of 719 prints is recorded in four volumes and the volumes of this catalogue raisonné have been compiled by Gérald Cramer, Patrick Cramer, Professor Alistair Grant, Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London and David Mitchinson, Curator of Collections at the Henry Moore Foundation, in conjunction with the artist. The first two volumes were published by Gérald Cramer, and the last two by Patrick Cramer in Geneva. The catalogue raisonné reference number of each print is indicated as Cramer, followed by the volume number expressed in roman numerals (I to IV), followed by the number of the print within the volume. This reference can be found at the end of the pre-prose section of each entry. Most of the prints in this donation were made during the period 1980-4 and are contained within Cramer Volume IV, published in 1986, which covers Moore's output from 1980 to the spring of 1984 when ill health prevented him from producing further prints. All prints, if polychrome, are reproduced in Cramer in full colour while those in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/monochrome" title="Glossary definition for 'Monochrome'"><span>monochrome</span></a> are printed in black on a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tone</span></a> colour.</span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-the-artists-hand-i-p02907" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02907</span></a> - <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-the-artists-hand-v-p02911" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02911</span></a> </span><b>The Artist's Hand I-V</b><span>
1979, pub. 1980 </span>
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<p><span><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portfolio" title="Glossary definition for 'Portfolio'"><span>Portfolio</span></a> of three lithographs and two etchings, various sizes, on Rives <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a>, various sizes, by various printers, all published by Raymond Spencer Company for the Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham; artist's proofs aside from the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of 50 portfolios </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/moore-the-artists-hand-ii-p02908" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02908</span></a> </span><b>The Artist's Hand II</b><span>
1979 </span>
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<p><span>Etching 190 x 254 (7 1/2 x 10) on Rives paper 370 x 503 (14 1/2 x 19 3/4); plate-mark 190 x 255 (7 1/2 x 10); printed by James Collyer and John Crossley </span>
<br/><span>Inscribed ‘Moore' below image b.r. and ‘II/X' below image b.l. </span>
<br/><span>Cramer III 554 </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, pp.420 and 434</i>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-21T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults artist, draughtsman artist - non-specific artist, printmaker artist, sculptor arts and entertainment birth to death body English hand hands clasped man, old Moore, Henry named individuals nationality old age people portraits self-portraits society work and occupations