Henry Moore: Complete Drawings Volume 5 1977-81

Limited availability. First Edition hardcover.

Please note there is some discolouration to the pages and there is some warping in the dust jackets because these copies have been stored since 1994. This is reflected in the price, no refunds or replacements will issued.

The complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings is being published in six volumes spanning a period of almost seventy years from 1916, during which time the artist produced about 5,500 drawings. This present volume, cataloging more than a thousand drawings from 1977 to 1981, is the first to be published. 

In 1977 and 1978 Moore was still making sculpture and found little time for drawing, but from 1979 onwards failing health forced him gradually to relinquish his sculptural activity and he turned more and more to drawing as an outlet for his artistic energies. During the 1980s his output of drawings was prodigious, and he constantly experimented with new subjects, as well as returning to themes first examined in the 1920s and 1930s.

Each volume of the catalogue includes a preface and an explanation of how to use the book, an introduction by the Editor, detailed catalogue entries of each work with a black and white illustrations, plus 16 pages of colour plates.

The catalogue of drawings completes the published recording of Moore's work and provides an essential reference tool for museums, galleries, collectors and students of twentieth century art.