MOORE, Henry.

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Heads, Figures and Ideas; [together with] Form and Space. First edition of Heads, Figures and Ideas, limited issue for subscribers, number 76 of 150 copies signed and dated by Moore on the frontispiece. Together with a maquette version of the same book, Form and Space, signed and titled by the artist on the front board in paint. In this collection of developmental sketches and notes, the artist writes, "the continual everlasting problem for me is to combine sculptural form (power) with human sensitivity and meaning, to try to keep the Primitive Power with humanist content."Heads, Figures and Ideas contains one of Moore's earliest lithographs produced by Curwen Prints, Thirteen Standing Stones. 1958, the year of publication, was the year in which the Curwen Studio was founded and the press ventured into art and print-making. The studio enjoyed a long association with Henry Moore.Copies numbered 1 to 27 of Heads, Figures and Ideas were bound in full morocco and issued with an original watercolour drawing.

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