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Ceri Richards painted Trafalgar Square in 1951 for the Festival of Britain exhibition 60 Paintings In ‘51. over the next few years he would continue making prints and paintings with a series of abstractions. 

He taught at various London art colleges and after 1951, when a large painting of Trafalgar Square (now in the Tate Gallery) was shown at the Festival of Britain, his reputation was international. †

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, London, 1950

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, 1951

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square II, 1951

After working on a series of these paintings and various drawings Richards issued the lithograph below in 1952. In another five years he would make another lithograph in 1957 and another in 1958. It was a theme that you would assume would be a year or two, but latest over a decade  

 Ceri Richards - Sunlight in Trafalgar Square, 1952

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square (Movement of Pigeons), 1952

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, 1957

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, 1958

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, 1962

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square (trial proof), 1962

 Ceri Richards - Trafalgar Square, 1961–2