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Ceri Richards was born in Wales in 1903 and died in London in 1971. He studied at Swansea School of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Ceri Richards taught at an art school in Cardiff but returned to London where he lived most of his life. He made prints, linocuts and later lithographs. In 1959 he began working with Stanley Jones of the Curwen Press and made some of his important prints there. He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1962.
His work is widely regarded as some of the most distinguished of that period by any British artist. He was a natural draughtsman, a maker of constructions and also a designer of stained glass but above all a painter of extraordinary virtuosity. A master printmaker also, one of his prints has been described as the finest produced in the 20th Century.
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