Hammerklavier

Location

Country: Austria
City: Vienna
Place: UK Delegation to Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

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

Subjects

piano, abstract

Materials & Techniques

lithograph

Artist

Ceri Richards (1903 - 1971)

Title

Hammerklavier

Portfolio Title

The Hammerklavier Suite With Variations

Edition

37/50

Date

1959

Medium

Lithograph

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Alecto, March 1969

Inscription

bl: 37/50 br: Ceri Richards /59

GAC number

8488