Study for Relief Construction for Two Females

Details

Ceri Richards (1903-1971)
Study for Relief Construction for Two Females
signed and dated 'Ceri Richards/1937' (lower right)
pencil, ink, coloured pencil and watercolour
11 3/8 x 15 in. (28.9 x 38.1 cm.)

Provenance

with Wenlock Fine Art, Much Wenlock, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

R. Sanesi, Ceri Richards: Rilievi, Disegni e Dipinti 1931-1940, Milan, 1976, n.p., illustrated.

Special notice

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.

Lot Essay

The present work is a study for the relief Two Females, 1937-8 (Tate Collection). The artist explained that the work was an interpretation of two contrasting concepts of the female form; the one virginal, the other sexual and indicative of fertility. Two Females was the last but one of a series of twelve surviving reliefs, the earliest of which was begun in 1934, and was greatly admired by Hans Arp.

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