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DANCING COSTERS NO.2 1952

Ceri Richards (1903 – 1971)

Details

Dimension
42 X 52.2 CM (IMAGE)
Media
LITHOGRAPH
Accession number
P680

Summary

Richards experimented with collage and relief constructions in the 1930s and made his first prints, three linocuts, at the end of the decade and his first lithograph in 1940. In 1939 Richards took his first steps in printing with three linocuts of London costers (street traders). The flamboyant dress of these London fruit and vegetable sellers, remained a source of inspiration in his drawings, prints and paintings until the 1950s. The works come from a group of lithographs printed by Richards himself at the Royal College of Art in 1951-52. This is a later impression of an unlimited edition printed originally for the Festival of Britain of 1951.

Out of Print British Printmaking 1946-1976, The British Council 1994

 

Glossary

  • Collage

    The two-dimensional form of assemblage made by affixing paper, card, photographs, fabric and other objects to a flat surface. It is often combined with painting and drawing techniques. This technique was first introduced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1912 during their phase of synthetic cubism.

  • Edition

    All copies of a book, print, portfolio, sculpture, etc., issued or produced at one time or from a single set of type. Printed works can be made in an edition of between one and many thousands of copies. With most printing techniques the plate or screen will become worn if very many prints are made, so to maintain quality (and exclusivity) editions of original prints are usually kept below one hundred copies and normally average between thirty and fifty copies. Prints made up of several different plates can be extremely complicated and time-consuming to edition, so in these cases editions are kept low for practical reasons. Sculptural editions are a set of cast sculptures taken from the same mould or master. These editions are usually much lower, consisting of no more than six casts. Though each cast in an edition might have a lower value than a unique piece, it may be a more effective way of offsetting costs of an expensive process such as bronze casting.

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