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The Rape of the Sabines
Ceri Richards
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 38 x 55 cm
- Vendor
- Marlborough Fine Art
The Rape of the Sabines was a theme suffused with a wartime preoccupation with birth and death which occupied Richards in 1947-8.
Matisse was a primary source of inspiration for the Sabines series and Richards refers specifically to La Danse for the composition, forms and use of colour.
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art.