Drawings & notes,

Miscellaneous drawings by Ceri Richards comprising a Christmas card, c. 1930; a series of nine preliminary sketches, [November 1953], in pencil and ink, for the decorations executed by him on four copies of the first edition of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems (1952) (see note to 544 and 581, below); a signed collage entitled 'Hammerklavier' presented to the artist's daughter, Rachel, Christmas 1953, together with four printed cards announcing his exhibition of lithographs on the 'Hammerklavier' theme, 1959, each with different original decorations by the artist in crayon and ink (see 544, below). Also included are an untitled, numbered lithograph signed by Frances Richards, [1970s], and miscellaneous notes, [?late 1940s], by Ceri Richards, comprising notes for a lecture on art, and transcripts, in English translation, of writings on art by Henri Matisse.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23011E

The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 ae indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

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See also NLW MS 22487E, which includes letters, c. 1949-1967, from Ceri Richards to Vernon Watkins with reference to Richards's work in relation to that of Dylan Thomas. See also NLW Dr Iorwerth Hughes Jones Papers D2/2 for a further example in the series of printed cards announcing Ceri Richards's 'Hammerklavier' lithographs exhibition.

For the relationship between the works of Ceri Richards and those of Dylan Thomas, see Burns, Richard: Ceri Richards. Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas (London, 1980) and Burns, Richard: Keys to Transformation (London, 1981), also NLWJ 29 (1995-6), pp. 347-54.

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