Trafalgar Square

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Wales Office, Gwydyr House, Whitehall

Born in Dunvant, a mining village near Swansea, Ceri Richards studied at Swansea School of Art. In the early 1920s, he attended the Royal College of Art where he later taught, in addition to teaching at the Slade and Chelsea School of Art. He often returned to the Gower Peninsula in Wales, which inspired his work. Richards became Head of Painting at Cardiff School of Art during the Second World War. In 1961 he won a gold medal at the National Eisteddfod and in 1962, won the Einaudi Painting Prize at the Venice Biennale. A versatile artist, he made prints, collages, reliefs, costume designs and paintings. He was a Tate Trustee from 1958 to 1965, and received a CBE in 1961. After Richards’ death, major exhibitions of his work were held in Cardiff, Chichester and London.

Places

England, London, Trafalgar Square, Westminster

Subjects

topography, pigeon, man, woman, public square, fountain, clock tower

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Ceri Richards (1903 - 1971)

Title

Trafalgar Square

Edition

4/25

Date

1957

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from the Zwemmer Gallery, October 1958

Inscription

below image: 4/25 / Ceri Richards XII '57

GAC number

4749