• A book cover titled "Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook" featuring a detailed line drawing of a sheep. The sheep's wool is intricately illustrated, and the cover includes comments by Henry Moore and Kenneth Clark.
  • A partially open book displays an illustration of sheep grazing in a grassy field. The left page is blank, while the right page features detailed, sketched sheep with a backdrop of trees and a serene landscape.
  • A black and white illustration of several sheep grazing in a grassy field, depicted in a sketch style. The left page is blank, while the right page features the sheep, showcasing their woolly coats and natural poses.
  • A black and white illustration of a sheep grazing in a grassy field. The sheep is depicted in a detailed, sketchy style, with intricate lines creating texture in its wool and the surrounding landscape. The background features abstract patterns.
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Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook

Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook

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A beautiful reproduction of Moore's 1972 Sheep Sketchbook, as Moore drew them from his studio overlooking the Sheep Fields at Perry Green.

In February 1972 Henry Moore's sculpture studios in the English countryside at Much Hadham were filled with the preparations for his retrospective exhibition in Florence. He retreated to a small studio overlooking the fields where a local farmer grazed his sheep.

The sheep came very close to the window, attracting his attention, and he began to draw them. Initially he saw them as four-legged balls of wool, but his vision changed as he explored what they were really like - the way they moved, the shape of their bodies under the fleece. 

They also developed strong human and biblical associations, and the sight of a ewe with her lamb evoked the mother-and-child theme - a large form sheltering a small one - which was important to Henry Moore in all his work. He drew the sheep again that summer after they were shorn, when he could see the shapes of the bodies which had been covered with wool.

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