His photographs of Moore formed the basis of four books, which incorporated Hedgecoe’s photographs alongside Moore’s words. In his book Photographing People, Hedgecoe described two images of Moore, which played with the scale between sculptor and sculpture: ‘When considering a long-term project involving a pictorial record of a person’s life, it is important to include shots such as these above, that show the viewer important aspects of the subject’s work.

For anyone wanting to start a serious art collection within whatever budget this could be the best place to start. This permeable position between the maker and the made is perhaps what attracted the sculptor to the animal, leading him to produce a range of sketches in pen and ink that would eventually make up his 1980 publication Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook.

In the present photography, being behind the sculpture, Moore seems to recede behind the small void. The plaster model is Perry Green, and examples of the bronze casts are at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco [7] and the Hakone Open-Air Museum. In this facsimile edition, created under Moore's personal supervision, Mary's little lambs will charm anyone who sees these tender, vigorous drawings.

For such a placid subject, the movement and energy generated by Moore showcases his deep fascination with the animal, but one that is essentially of the moment. Goldmark have the most astonishing range, from the very affordable to the upper echelons of the market.

One is solid and passive, resting firmly on the ground and strongly resistant - the other form, slightly larger and more active and powerful, but yet it leans on the lower form, needing it for support. His forms are usually abstract human figures, often depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures, but some of the drawings depict animals, for example, sheep. Other leading British artists represented in the collection include Eileen Agar, David Bomberg, Roger Fry, Harold Gilman, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron, Lucie Rie and William Scott. Sheep Piece was named such as he placed it in a field in his grounds, which he rented out to the local farmer for the sheep.