Homage to Beethoven | Artwork | Celf ar y Cyd

This site uses cookies to improve your experience. View our Cookie Policy

Preferences

Essential

These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.

Accept

Cookies that measure website use

We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.

Accept

Cookies that help with communications and marketing

These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.

Accept

Previous Artwork Next Artwork

Homage to Beethoven

RICHARDS, Ceri

Richards was deeply affected by the death of Dylan Thomas in 1953 and produced a series of works in homage to the dead poet. This allegorical composition celebrates another of the artist's heroes, Ludwig van Beethoven. It juxtaposes two favourite themes. One of these is a musing woman, turning from a piano and a French horn to a sheet of music. The other is a pair of energetic galloping horses, ultimately derived from 'The Lion Hunt' by the French Romantic painter Eugéne Delacroix (1798-1863).

We have a duty of care to all our audiences. This website draws on legacy collections data. We recognise that some of this information may be outdated or discriminatory and we're currently working to review our records. If you have any questions or comments on an artwork, please contact us.

Copyright statement provided by Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 591

Creation/Production

RICHARDS, Ceri

Education: Swansea School of Art; Royal College of Art Work: Cardiff College of Art; Chelsea School of Art; Royal College of Art; Slade School of Art Awards: CBE, 1960; Hon. D.Litt University of Wales, 1961; Hon.Fellow of the RCA Commissions: stained glass windows for Liverpool Cathedral and Derby Cathedral The landscape of the Gower was a strong source of imagery - much of his work was also inspired by poetry and music: a crowning achievement was the series of paintings and construction on the theme of Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)

Role: Artist

Period: 1953

Measurements

Height (cm): 127.3

Width (cm): 102.4

Height (in): 50

Width (in): 40

Material

Oil

Location

In store

More

Tags

Share

More like this

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

We’re working on releasing this image.

The Valley Mink Hounds

SYKES Homer

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

F.Y.R.O Macedonia. Gypsies. The posters on the wall concern the referendum for the independence of Macedonia

ECONOMOPOULOS Nikos

© Nikos Economopoulos / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

CHAPMAN, Chris

© Chris Chapman/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

South Wales Art Society 80th Annual Exhibition

National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff

By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Seated Figure and Star (Morges)

YARROW, Catherine

© Catherine Yarrow/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Two Scottish farmers work out the worlds problems. Locheal. Scotland

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Hot dog stall and the American Flag. Lower Manhattan. New York USA

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

A family group walk across the hill-side with the Mountain Ben Nevis. Scotland

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Loons

SEE-PAYNTON, Colin

© Colin See-Paynton/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Podiceps Cristatus

SEE-PAYNTON, Colin

© Colin See-Paynton/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Five kingfishers

SEE-PAYNTON, Colin

© Colin See-Paynton/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

SUTHERLAND, Graham Vivian

© Estate of Graham Sutherland/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Bingo in the local social club. Abertillery, Wales

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

We’re working on releasing this image.

Costume Designs for Welsh National Opera

BJORNSEN, Maria

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Suburbs of Naples

JONES, Thomas

By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Street scene in Soho in the centre of London. Restaurant window. One of the first pictures ever taken by David Hurn, shot on a a Kodak folding Retina camera (first camera)

HURN David

© David Hurn / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Violet Marguesita as Lucy Lockit

EVANS, Powys

© Powys Evans/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Venezuela, Caracas

ANDERSON Christopher

© Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum

Burning effigy of David Cameron with Nick Clegg as his puppet. Cliff Bonfire, Lewes, Sussex

HANNANT Sara

© Sara Hannant/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales