- The Sabine Women, 1948
- Cycle of Nature: Blue & Red, 1965-68
- Red Interior with Music by Albeniz, 1949
- The Flowering Skull, c.1965
- The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, 1964
- Tinplate Worker Mopping his Brow, 1942
- Costerwoman (Blue), 1942
- The Artist in his Studio, 1936/7
- Two Costers in a Pub, 1942
- Tinplate Worker Booting Up, 1942
- The Rape of the Sabines, 1947
- Two Tinplate Workers on a Break (Green), 1942
- The Sculptor, 1934
Ceri Richards
The Sabine Women, 1948
oil on canvas
Signed Lower Left
98 x 142.5 cm / 38.5 x 56 in
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The Rape of the Sabines was a theme suffused with a wartime preoccupation with death and rebirth which occupied Richards in 1947-8. Matisse was a primary source of inspiration for...
The Rape of the Sabines was a theme suffused with a wartime preoccupation with death and rebirth which occupied Richards in 1947-8. Matisse was a primary source of inspiration for the Sabines series and Richards refers specifically to 'La Danse' for the composition, forms and use of colour.
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Ceri Richards
Cycle of Nature: Blue & Red, 1965-68
oil on canvas
signed, titled & dated verso
59 3/4 x 59 3/4 in / 151.8 x 151.8 cm
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Exhibitions
University of East Anglia Library, Ceri Richards - Poetry into Art: Paintings, Graphic Works & Books, Norwich, 1982
National Library of Wales, Aberstwyth, 1982
National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Ceri Ricahrds - Themes & Variations, Cardiff, 2002
Ceri Richards
Red Interior with Music by Albeniz, 1949
oil on canvas
signed & dated lower left
40 x 40 in / 101.6 x 101.6 cm
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Provenance
The Artist, and by descent
Exhibitions
Tate Gallery, London, Ceri Richards, 1981, no. 45
National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff, Ceri Richards – Themes & Variations, 2002
Literature
David Thompson, Art in Progress - Ceri Richards, 1963, p.17, illus.
Mel Gooding, Ceri Richards, 2002, p.99, illus.
Ceri Richards
The Flowering Skull, c.1965
coloured crayon on paper
5 1/2 x 4 in / 14 x 10 cm
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Ceri Richards
The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower, 1964
crayon, pastel & watercolour on paper
8 x 10 in / 20.3 x 25.3 cm
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Ceri Richards
Tinplate Worker Mopping his Brow, 1942
ink, watercolour & wax resist on paper
14 x 9 in / 35.5 x 22.8 cm
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'I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think...
"I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think what I was much aware of was the gloom ... when you went in there from the outside you couldn't see very much, and they worked in a perpetual gloom ... and this is what I got as well - the heat. It was very, very hot."
Ceri Richards
Provenance
Artist's Estate
Ceri Richards
Costerwoman (Blue), 1942
ink, crayon & watercolour on paper
12 x 9 1/2 in / 30.5 x 24.1 cm
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'I always remember the impression of her coming down the stairs with this terrific floral extension of herself: this enormous hat of feathers. The woman costermoger in her costume became...
"I always remember the impression of her coming down the stairs with this terrific floral extension of herself: this enormous hat of feathers. The woman costermoger in her costume became a sort of flower symbol... The proliferation of her hat and costume had a kind of sensuality. I mean, I soon became aware that this was not the woman in a costume but a costume worn by a person; who wasn't a person really, but had become like a marvellous bouquet of flowers..."
Ceri Richards
Provenance
Artist's Estate
Ceri Richards
The Artist in his Studio, 1936/7
ink on paper
signed & dated lower left
14 3/4 x 19 3/4 in / 37.5 x 50.2 cm
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Ceri Richards
Two Costers in a Pub, 1942
ink, watercolour & pastel on paper
12 x 9 1/2 in / 30.6 x 24.1 cm
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'I always remember the impression of her coming down the stairs with this terrific floral extension of herself: this enormous hat of feathers. The woman costermoger in her costume became...
"I always remember the impression of her coming down the stairs with this terrific floral extension of herself: this enormous hat of feathers. The woman costermoger in her costume became a sort of flower symbol... The proliferation of her hat and costume had a kind of sensuality. I mean, I soon became aware that this was not the woman in a costume but a costume worn by a person; who wasn't a person really, but had become like a marvellous bouquet of flowers..."
Ceri Richards
Provenance
Artist's Estate
Ceri Richards
Tinplate Worker Booting Up, 1942
ink, crayon, watercolour & wax resist on paper
9 x 14 in / 22.8 x 35.5 cm
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'I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think...
"I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think what I was much aware of was the gloom ... when you went in there from the outside you couldn't see very much, and they worked in a perpetual gloom ... and this is what I got as well - the heat. It was very, very hot."
Ceri Richards
Provenance
Artist's Estate
Ceri Richards
The Rape of the Sabines, 1947
ink & watercolour on paper
signed & dated lower right
14 1/4 x 21 1/2 in / 36.8 x 54.5 cm
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Exhibitions
Tate Gallery, London, Ceri Richards, 1981, no. IV
Literature
Mel Gooding, Ceri Richards, Cameron & Hollis, Moffat, 2002, p. 83, illus.
Ceri Richards
Two Tinplate Workers on a Break (Green), 1942
ink, watercolour & pastel on paper
12 x 9 1/2 in / 30.5 x 24.1 cm
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'I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think...
"I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think what I was much aware of was the gloom ... when you went in there from the outside you couldn't see very much, and they worked in a perpetual gloom ... and this is what I got as well - the heat. It was very, very hot."
Ceri Richards
Provenance
Artist's Estate
Ceri Richards
The Sculptor, 1934
ink on paper
signed & dated lower right
12 x 17 3/4 in / 30.5 x 45 cm
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Exhibitions
Tate Gallery, London, Ceri Richards, 1981, no. 24