Ceri Richards

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Ceri Geraldus Richards (June 6, 1903 - November 9, 1971), was a Welsh painter.

Richards was born the mining village of Dunvant, near Swansea. After studying drawing in his home town, he attended a summer school at Gregynog, where he became interested in modern art and drawn to the work of Claude Monet. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art and spent most of his life in London, apart from a period teaching art in Cardiff. In 1929 he married Frances Clayton, a fellow artist. His work gradually moved towards surrealism after exposure to the work of Picasso and Kandinski. He was also a talented musician, and music is a theme for much of his artwork. From 1959 onwards, he made prints for the Curwen Press. One of the high points of his career was the Venice Biennale of 1962, where he was a prizewinner.

Many of his works are in the Tate Collection.[1] The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea also holds a collection (where Richards' first solo exhibition took place in 1930). Good examples of his work are also to be found in the gallery of the National Museum Cardiff and the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.

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Still Life with Music (1933)
The Sculptor and his Object (1934)
The Sculptor in his Studio (1937)
The Female Contains All Qualities (1937)
Blossoms (1940)
The Coster Woman (1943
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower (three lithographs) (1947)
The Pianist (1948)
White Blossom (1968)
Elegy for Vernon Watkins (1971)