MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

CERI RICHARDS R.A.
[1903-71]

CERI RICHARDS

Adam's Apple
1936
wood construction
unique
signed
61 x 86 cm
Provenance: The artist;
Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff;
Prof. A L Cochrane collection;
Christies, 9 Nov. 1990, lot 227;
Bonhams, 19 Nov. 2008, lot 34
Conceived in 1936
construction finished 1962

CERI RICHARDS - Trafalgar Square, 1951, oil on canvas
signed and dated, 25 x 35 cm
Provenance: The artist; Redfern Gallery, 1953; Private collection, UK
Christies auction, 9 June 1989, lot 365; Private collection, UK
Trafalgar Square was the theme for his Festival of Britain painting

CERI RICHARDS

Beekeeper V
1955/6
oil on canvas
76 x 50 cm
Provenance: The artist;
Redfern Gallery, London, 1956;
Private collection, UK;
Christies, 13 December 1982, l. 178
Sothebys, 2017

CERI RICHARDS - Cathedrale Engloutie, 1962, oil on canvas
signed, 41 x 41 cm
Provenance: Colin Phipps collection; CCA Galleries, Dec. 1997

Ceri Richards was born in Wales and studied at the Royal College of Art.
I have included him in this sculpture section as most of his early artwork in the 1930s were constructions which he carried on producing throughout his life, but he is better known as a painter.
He represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1962 and was a prize-winner. He exhibited at Marlborough Fine Art alongside Francis Bacon at this time and was regarded as being at the same level.
The Tate Gallery have a huge collection of his work and there are a few books available, the best is by Mel Gooding.
A wonderful artist [Wales's best] whose work is at it's finest when closest to abstraction [e.g. the early constructions and the Cathedrale Engloutie series [1960s] - particularly the small and medium size canvases].