Catalogue entry
Ceri Richards b. 1903
T00798 The Female Contains All Qualities 1937
Inscr. ‘Ceri Richards/1937’ 1.1. and ‘The Female unites all qualities/Ceri Richards 1937’ in pencil on back of canvas.
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 42 x 35 (107 x 89).
Purchased from Frances Richards, the artist’s wife, 1966. Coll: Given by the artist to his wife c. 1956.
Exh: A.I.A., 1939 Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery; February–March 1939 (1420); New Movements in Art: Contemporary Work in England, London Museum, Lancaster House, March–May 1942 (81); 40,000 Years of Modern Art, Academy Hall, 1948, organised by I.C.A. (as ‘Black and White Abstraction’, not in catalogue); Whitechapel Art Gallery, June-July 1960 (7, repr.); Venice Biennale, 1962 (60, British Pavilion H, repr… (read more)
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