Drawings
This theme encompasses drawings as set pieces rather than the 'aide memoire' type of sketch as the basis for a painting. Dad's childhood work may not have consciously been in this category but neither did they develop into paintings. He often commented on the lower status of drawing compared to painting and that no artist's reputation could rest on such work. But I think nowadays drawings are considered more important to the understanding of an artist's work than they were half a century ago. [PB]
Richard's most well known drawings are the set he produced for his solo show at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. These were " . . . designed to fill the whole surface of the paper . . . I planned the drawing in space and continued as complete a realisation over ever square inch as I was capable of . . . Perhaps unconciously I had in mind Durer's engravings which I had admired so much . . .". [from Richard's memoir as quoted by Caroline Krzesinska in her introduction to the catalogue for the 1979-80 Bradford retrospective touring exhibition]
"Sunday Best" Betty and Paul (1929)
pencil on paper - 35h x 25w (cm)
The Family (1929)
pencil on paper - 30.5h x 25.4w (cm)
Lady with a Bird (1929)
pencil on paper - 121.5h x 49.5w (cm)
The Girl with Closed Eyes (1929)
pencil on paper - 30.5h x 22.9w (cm)
Lady with a Lute (1929)
pencil on paper - 38h x 28w (cm)
The Pool in the Wood (1929)
pencil on paper - 27h x 37w (cm)
Head of a Girl (1929)
Pencil on paper - 16.5h x 16w (cm)
Returning from the Shore (1929)
pencil on paper - 26.35h x 36.83w (cm)
The Circus (1929)
pencil on paper
Seated Woman (1929)
pencil on paper - 37h x 26w (cm)
Clowns at Practice (1929)
pencil on paper - 37.5h x 30.5w (cm)
The Cat and Mouse (1929)
pencil on paper - 38.1h x 27.9w (cm)
Rabbiting by the River (1929)
pencil on paper - 17.5h x 38.5w (cm)
The Grandfather (1929)
pencil on paper - 26.5h x 30w (cm)
Girl with a Baby (1929)
pencil on paper - 31h x 19.6w (cm)
A Fairy Tale (1929)
pencil on paper - 37h x 27w (cm)
Girl at a Window (1929)
pencil on paper - 25.4h x 20.32w (cm)
Mother and Daughter (1929)
pen on paper
The Muse (1929)
pencil on paper - 33h x 25w (cm)
Evensong (1929)
pencil on paper - 32.5h x 38w (cm)