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Henry Moore
Seated Woman, 1932
Author:
Henry MooreBio:
Castleford, Inglaterra, 1898-Perry Green, Inglaterra ,1986Title:
Seated WomanDate:
1932Medium:
AquarelaDimensions:
44,5 x 30 cmCredit line:
Doação Samuel Ribeiro; Indústrias Químicas e Farmacêuticas Schering S.A.; Conde Silvio Álvares Penteado; Rosalina Coelho Lisboa de Larragoiti, Antonio Sanches de Larragoiti Junior; Gladston Jafet. Henry Borden; Major Kenneth Mc Crimmon;Guilherme Guinle; Moinho Santista S.A.; Um anônimo; Ernesto Walter; Omar Radler de Aquino, 1950Object type:
DesenhoInventory number:
MASP.03804Photography credits:
João Musa
Seated Woman is clearly a portrait of a specific subject that shows a certain affinity with the Italian culture of the 20s, namely that of Valori Plastici. If, on the one hand, the play on proportions, with a very small head, already heralds the postwar works, on the other, the artist still treats the figure as a plastic system endowed with inner gravity, unlike his subsequent works, which will be characterized by the sculpture’s detachment from the block, the monolith, as a phenomenological starting point.
— Unknown authorship, 1998