Dancing Girl

This small drawing is full of movement, but, like other drawings of this period, Richard’s rendering of drapery has a surreal quality,  being almost solid like his wooden carving of a woman, from about the same time. But she feels light on her feet, and is lost in the mood of the dance. You can almost hear the music! It was at this time that Richard made a number of drawings, rather than paintings, for his first one-man show at the Goupil gallery. The intense detail was a strain on his eyes, but creates an imaginative power which is magnetic, and brings one back to it again and again.