Renowned English artist Henry Moore explored the human form throughout his career and across mediums. Known primarily for his monumental sculptures, he also worked actively on paper, making prints and drawings. In this drawing from 1944, Moore layered and combined pen, ink, chalk, and watercolor to create a scene with four reclining figures, abstracted and sculptural in form. Inspired by organic shapes, textures, and palettes found in nature, he often turned to drawing as a means to develop ideas that he would then execute in less malleable materials such as bronze or stone. Moore’s process is on view here as he works out a balance between recognizable figuration and amorphous abstraction, drawing on the influence of art from ancient Egypt, Africa, and South America that he had seen at the British Museum in London and engaging in an artistic dialogue with his contemporaries, including Alberto Giacometti, whom he met in Paris in 1933 and with whom he would remain lifelong friends.