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- ca. 1930-1970s / (Creation)
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44 ff. Guarded and filed.
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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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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English
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Finding aids
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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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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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23011E
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- Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Translations into English (Subject)
- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 (Subject)
- Patterson, Rachel (Subject)