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Rock Head
Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986
abstraction
adults
ambiguity
body
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
figure
from recognisable sources
head / face
landscape
landscape
people
rocky
transformation
universal concepts
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Henry Moore
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Rock Head
image: 252 × 226 mm
Presented by the Henry Moore Foundation 1986
<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>
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<p><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 Print 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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<p><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 <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>Printmaking</span></a> 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-rock-head-p02840" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02840</span></a> </span><b>Rock Head 1981</b><span>, pub. 1983 </span>
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<p><span>Lithograph 252 x 226 (10 x 8 7/8) on T.H. Saunders paper 445 x 407 (17 1/2 x 16); printed by Curwen Prints and published by Raymond Spencer Company for the Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham; dedicated proof aside from the edition of 50 </span>
<br/><span>Inscribed ‘Moore' below image b.l. and ‘For/The Tate Gallery' below image b.l.</span>
<br/><span>Cramer IV 624 </span>
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<p><span><span>P02840</span> was originally titled ‘John the Baptist'. </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</i><span>, Tate Gallery, London 1988, pp.420-1 </span>
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abstraction adults ambiguity body emotions, concepts and ideas figure figure from recognisable sources head / face landscape landscape people rocky transformation universal concepts