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Ceri Richards
A Page from the Liverpool Cathedral Sketchbook
coloured crayon and ballpoint pen
13¾ x 17¼in. (34 x 44cm.)
In 1968, Sir Frederick Gibberd commissioned Ceri Richards to design the two windows, the reredos, the tabernacle and the altar front for the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool, for which he was the architect. He later wrote of Richards
'Few artists could have tackled so difficult a problem but I had no doubts that it was made for Ceri Richards. He had already done some stained glass designs and so there were no fears that the technique would be alien to him; as to the painting, the Cathedrale Engloutie' series ... were proof enough that he was capable of evoking profound liturgical associations through a great work of art'
(See C. Bailey, intro., Ceri Richards and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Walker Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Liverpool, 1965, p5);
and a screenprint 'Two Nudes' by the same artist (2)
A Page from the Liverpool Cathedral Sketchbook
coloured crayon and ballpoint pen
13¾ x 17¼in. (34 x 44cm.)
In 1968, Sir Frederick Gibberd commissioned Ceri Richards to design the two windows, the reredos, the tabernacle and the altar front for the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool, for which he was the architect. He later wrote of Richards
'Few artists could have tackled so difficult a problem but I had no doubts that it was made for Ceri Richards. He had already done some stained glass designs and so there were no fears that the technique would be alien to him; as to the painting, the Cathedrale Engloutie' series ... were proof enough that he was capable of evoking profound liturgical associations through a great work of art'
(See C. Bailey, intro., Ceri Richards and the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Walker Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogue, Liverpool, 1965, p5);
and a screenprint 'Two Nudes' by the same artist (2)