サザビーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (サザビーズInstagram)「“When we got to Belsize Park we weren’t allowed out of the station for an hour because of the bombing. I spent the time looking at the rows of people sleeping on the platforms. I had never seen so many reclining figures, and even the train tunnels seemed to be like the holes in my sculpture. Amid the grim tension, I noticed groups of strangers formed together into intimate groups and children asleep within feet of the passing trains.” Henry #Moore’s Shelter Drawing: Seated Mother and Child (circa 1941) captures the artist working at his very best. No stranger to conflict, having served in the First World War, Moore approached the events of 1939 with a stark realism of the threats posed to everyday life in. As the war progressed Londoners came under increasing threat from the Nazi air raids, and many took to the city’s underground stations for safety and refuge. This is amongst the most tender and worked drawings the artist created during the war, and at its heart, we see the mother and child – one of the artist’s most significant motifs. Here is a message of defiance – of the strength and power of humanity – and ultimately of hope. A highlight of our Modern & Post-War British Art Evening Sale in #London on 18 June. #SothebysModBrit #HenryMoore #BritishArt #ModernBritishArt」6月13日 17時33分