Cycle of Nature
RICHARDS, Ceri Giraldus
© Estate of Ceri Richards. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
This torrent of human, animal and vegetable forms is reminiscent of earlier Surrealist landscapes by Max Ernst. Richards is also exploring visual imagery that evokes Dylan Thomas's poem of 1933, 'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower'. In 1945 he was commisioned to illustrate the poem in 'Poetry London', for which he made three lithographs incorporating the entire text.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 219
Creation/Production
RICHARDS, Ceri Giraldus
Date: 1944
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of Knapping Fund, 1959
Purchased with support from The Knapping Fund
Measurements
Height (cm): 102.2
Width (cm): 152.7
Height (in): 40
Width (in): 60
Techniques
canvas
Material
oil
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