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 Figures
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 Figures
support: 181 × 270 mm
frame: 399 × 491 × 15 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05208</b> TWO SEATED FIGURES 1940</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Moore 40’ b.r.
<br/>Pen, wash, chalk and gouache, 7 1/8×10 5/8 (18×27).</p>
<p>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.</p>
<p><i>Lit:</i> Sylvester in <i>Britain Today</i>, November 1948, p.33.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Read, 1944, pl.169<i>a</i>; Read and Sylvester, I, 1957, p.225.</p>
<p><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> and <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-women-n05209" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05209</span></a> are examples of a number 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> of seated women executed shortly before and anticipating the shelter drawings (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-grey-tube-shelter-n05706" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05706</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-pink-and-green-sleepers-n05713" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05713</span></a>); one drawing of ‘Seated Figures’ was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, February 1940 (104).</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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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abstraction actions: postures and motions adults bench figure from recognisable sources furnishings gestural non-representational objects people sitting woman