The Rape of the Sabine Women

细节

Ceri Richards (1903-1971)
The Rape of the Sabine Women
signed and dated ''48 Ceri Richards' (lower left), signed again and inscribed 'Ceri Richards/Sabines' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.7 x 50.8 cm.)

来源

Peter Nahum, his sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 November 2006, lot 293, where purchased by the present owner for £12,350.

出版

Exhibition catalogue, I Surrealisti, Milan, Palazzo Reale, May - September 1989, p. 460, illustrated.
M. Gooding, Ceri Richards, Bristol, 2002, p. 84, illustrated.

展览

Milan, Palazzo Reale, I Surrealisti, May - September 1989, not numbered.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, Ceri Richards - The Mythologies, October - December 1991, catalogue not traced.

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

拍品专文

In March 1946 Richards read an essay in the Horizon magazine by Henri Matisse in which he expounded the virtues of looking to other civilisations, both past and present, in order to break the influences of one's immediate cultural surroundings. He highlighted Cézanne drawing inspiration from Poussin. For Richards this confirmed his own approach to the history of art which was for him ever relevant to one's experience within the here and now, and with this in mind, he turned to the paintings of Rubens and Delacroix.

In The Rape of the Sabines, painted in 1635, by Rubens, Richards found empathy with this classical story, made respectable through Renaissance painting. He recognised the themes of intense violation and consequential reconciliation and rejuvenation as having particular resonance in post-war Britain.

The Rape of the Sabine Women

拍品专文

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