Costerwoman, 1948

with Panter and Hall;
with Wilson Stephens Fine Art

Bristol, Royal West of England Academy, Drawing On, 21 March – 7 June 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January – 9 March 2017;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, London|Forward Facing, 26 September 2017 – 18 July 2018

Ceri Richards’ imagination and spirituality derive from his interest in Surrealism and, in particular, in the works of Max Ernst. Ernst’s influence on his forms is most apparent in Richards’ Coster series where he displays the women in their extravagant finery but seen through a different perspective.