Wax, coloured pencil, graphite, ink and watercolour on paper
Tate Britain
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on display
General Collection
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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>
Standing Figures
Purchased 1940
abstraction
actions: postures and motions
adults
body
bone
figure
figure
from recognisable sources
group
groups
people
standing
<p>This drawing by Moore can be closely associated with his sculptures of the period. Typically, the forms suggest at once human bodies, shells and bones, and interior bodily shapes. For Moore, drawing was a kind of investigative process, which would throw up new ideas for sculpture. Instead of producing a single, resolved image, the sculptor would generally cover the paper with different, half-finished sketches.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique wax coloured pencil graphite ink watercolour
1 June 2005 – 31 August 2005
2005-08-31
1 June 2005 – 31 August 2005
2005-08-31
2005-06-01
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
1 October 2005 – 1 March 2006
2006-03-01
2005-10-01
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey  (Monterrey, Mexico)
http://www.marco.org.mx
2005-06-01
Henry Moore and Mexico
Loan-out
4 June 2005 – 9 October 2005
2005-10-09
28 May 2005 – 9 October 2005
2005-10-09
2005-05-28
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
4 November 2005 – 19 February 2006
2006-02-19
2005-11-04
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey  (Monterrey, Mexico)
http://www.marco.org.mx
2005-06-04
Moore and Mexico
Loan-out
24 February 2010 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
24 February 2010 – 8 August 2010
2010-08-08
2010-02-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
23 October 2010 – 6 February 2011
2011-02-06
2010-10-23
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
11 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
2011-03-11
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2010-02-24
Henry Moore
Exhibition
1 September 2010 – 15 April 2011
2011-04-15
24 February 2010 – 15 August 2010
2010-08-15
2010-02-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
23 October 2010 – 6 February 2011
2011-02-06
2010-10-23
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
11 March 2011 – 12 June 2011
2011-06-12
2011-03-11
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2010-09-01
Henry Moore
Loan-out
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
2017-10-14
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2017-10-14
Modern Art and St Ives
Collection based display
19 December 2022
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-12-19
Gallery 37
Collection based display
Standing Figures
support: 264 × 181 mm
frame: 490 × 400 × 17 mm
Purchased 1940
<p>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> by Moore can be closely associated  with his <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>sculptures</span></a> of the period. Typically, the  forms suggest at once human bodies, shells and  bones, and interior bodily shapes. For Moore,  drawing was a kind of investigative process, which  would throw up new ideas for sculpture. Instead of  producing a single, resolved image, the sculptor  would generally cover 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/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> with different,  half-finished sketches.</p>
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2004-09-08T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05210</b> STANDING FIGURES 1940</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 40’ b.l.
<br/>Pen, chalk and gouache, 10 3/8×7 1/8 (26·5×18).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read, 1944, pl.157<i>b</i>.</p>
<p>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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> for carvings in wood, though in fact the war prevented Moore from doing any <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> until the ‘Madonna and Child’ projects of 1943 (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-maquette-for-madonna-and-child-n05600" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05600</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-maquette-for-madonna-and-child-n05603" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05603</span></a>); it was not until 1951–4 that he returned to the ideas of this and other sketches in the sculptures of ‘Internal and External Forms’ (repr. Read, II, 1955, Nos.23–6).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction actions: postures and motions adults body bone figure figure from recognisable sources group groups people standing