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Yousuf Karsh

Henry Moore

Description

Maker

Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, 1908 - 2002)

Title

Henry Moore

Year

1949

Medium

  • gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • gelatin silver print

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches) (sheet)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed lower left | Titled and dated verso

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh

Object Number

2011.91.3

Type

  • Photographs

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Yousuf Karsh
Portraits of Artists
Feb 27, 2009 – Aug 23, 2009

Label copy

"On a bitterly cold and rainy English morning in 1949 I found myself in Henry Moore’s studio. Those huge sculptured figures in plaster expressed, for me anyway, a certain cold objectivity in the man who had made them."

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Yousuf Karsh (Canadian, 1908 - 2002)
Henry Moore, 1949
Gelatin silver print
27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches) (sheet)
Gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh 2011.91.3

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