Ceri Richards Welsh, 1903-1971
The Sabine Women, 1948
oil on canvas
38 1/2 x 56 in / 98 x 142.5 cm
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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 Sabines series and Richards refers specifically to 'La Danse' for the composition, forms and use of colour.
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Mel Gooding Ceri Richards, Cameron & Hollis, 2002, p.87.
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