SKU: 11148
Frances Richards
(1903 - 1985)
Mother and child, sleeping
£500
Frances Richards (1903 - 1985)
£975
Size:
Height – 58.1cm
Width – 51.8cm
6 in stock
Throughout her life Richards had a deep love of poetry and was particularly affected by the visionary symbolism of Arthur Rimbaud.The year after producing Hieratic Floral Figure she executed a set of lithographs, published by the Curwen Press, inspired by Rimbaud’s Les Illuminations. A copy of Floral Tribute is in the Tate collection.
Frances Richards (n e Clayton) worked as a pottery designer for
Paragon while studying at Burslem School of Art (1919’24),
before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (1924′
27) where she met Ceri Richards (whom she married in 1929).
Greatly influenced by Italian Renaissance painters, she
specialised in tempera and fresco painting in her studies, and
continued to work in tempera after leaving the college. During
the 1930s she produced lithographs, and in 1931 provided twelve
drawings for The Revelation of St. John the Divine.
In 1945, she held her first solo exhibition at the Redfern
Gallery, where she exhibited again in 1949 and 1954. She also
took part in shows at Hannover Gallery (1950), the Leicester
Galleries (1964 and 1969), the Howard Roberts Gallery, and
Holsworthy Gallery (1981).
A respected teacher, Richards held posts at Camberwell School
of Art (1928’39) and later Chelsea School of Art (1947’59).
