Tag: Ceri Richards

Trafalgar Square

Post author By Robjn Cantus
Post date 8th July 2020

Ceri Richards painted Trafalgar Square in 1951 for the Festival of Britain exhibition 60 Paintings In ‘51. Over the next few years he would continue making prints and paintings with a series of abstractions.

He taught at various London art colleges and after 1951, when a large painting of Trafalgar Square (now in the Tate Gallery) was shown at the Festival of Britain, his reputation was international. †

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, London, 1950

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, 1951

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square II, 1951

After working on a series of these paintings and various drawings Richards issued the lithograph below in 1952. In another five years he would make another lithograph in 1957 and another in 1958. It was a theme that you would assume would be a year or two, but latest over a decade.

Ceri Richards – Sunlight in Trafalgar Square, 1952

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square (Movement of Pigeons), 1952

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, 1957

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, 1958

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, 1962

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square (trial proof), 1962

Ceri Richards – Trafalgar Square, 1961–2

† Ralph Alan Griffiths – The City of Swansea: Challenges and Change, 1991

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Coronation Lithographs

Post author By Robjn Cantus
Post date 25th July 2016

For the Coronation of Elizabeth II, a group of artists were invited to create lithographs for the Royal College of Art. Following the success of the Schools Prints series and Contemporary Lithographs, these prints were sold in limited editions and helped boost the RCA’s skills at reviving lithographic techniques. They were exhibited at the Redfern Gallery from April – May, 1953.

Most of the prints are held in Government collections and gain large prices at auction. It’s one of the least known lithographic collections but showcases some of the best British Artists of the mid twentieth century.

Leonard Rosoman – Two Pipers in the Sunlight, 1953

Michael Ayrton – Kettledrums, 1953

Kenneth Rowntree – Country Celebrations

Bernard Cheese – Drum Major

Edwin La Dell – Bandsmen in the City

Edwin La Dell – Horse Guards Parade

Alistair Grant – Hampton Court

Julian Trevelyan – The Mall

Robert Austin – Heralds

Barbara Jones – Prepairing the Coronation Coach

John Minton – Horseguards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall

Edward Bawden – Horse Guards

Ceri Richards – Costers Dancing

William Scott – Busby

Charles Mozley – Buckingham Palace Guard

Peter Downing – Celebration Dancers

Michael Rothenstein – Night illuminations

John Bowles – The Royal Barge

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Poetry. London.

Post author By Robjn Cantus
Post date 26th May 2016

Poetry London: A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism. This publication was founded by Tambimuttu and the first issue was dated January/February 1939. The associated publishing imprint, Editions Poetry London, formed in 1943, produced some 70 books and pamphlets, including by Keith Douglas, G. S. Fraser, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov and Kathleen Raine, before being discontinued in 1951.

This is one of those publications. I have a few in my collection but this is an excellent example as the cover is a lithograph by Henry Moore and inside there a further four lithographs by Ceri Richards, not to mention the authors inside.

Ceri Richards trained at the Royal College of Art from 1924. In 1929 he married Frances Clayton, a fellow artist.

His work gradually moved towards surrealism after exposure to the work of Picasso and Kandinsky. He was also a talented musician, and music is a theme for much of his artwork. From 1959 onwards, he made prints for theCurwen Press. One of the high points of his career was the Venice Biennale of 1962, where he was a prizewinner.

Richards on Dylan Thomas’s poems.

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