Prometheus Instructing Another to Build Shelter, from the book Prométhée (Prometheus) by Goethe, translated by André Gide, illustrated by Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore, English, 1898 - 1986
1950; published 1951
Color lithograph on wove paper
17/183
Sheet: 15 × 11 in. (38.1 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H
PR.959.143.4
Printer
Henri Paul Jonquières, Editor
Publisher
Atelier Mourlot Frères, Paris, France
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain
Period
20th century
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Moore
Exhibition History
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Provenance
Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1959.
Catalogue Raisonne
G. Cramer, Henry Moore: Catalogue of Graphic Work, Geneva, 1973, no. 29.
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