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Lot 14

Ceri Richards (1903-1971)

Homage to Dylan Thomas

Fermé15 July 2009

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Ceri Richards (1903-1971)
Homage to Dylan Thomas
signed 'Ceri/Richards' (lower right)
watercolour, ink and bodycolour
13½ x 20 in. (34.3 x 50.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1955.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 November 2002, lot 220.
with Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff, where purchased by the present owner in 2002.

Note du spécialiste

In 1953, as reports came in from America of Dylan Thomas' imminent death, Richards executed an number of ink drawings against certain Thomas poems. Following Thomas' death, Richards became obsessed with his poetry, making a number of works, many (as in the present work) featuring the poet himself, the estuary landscape of Laugharne and the birds of the bay and its overhanging hill.