“Cambridge has long been a place of inquiry and reflection, and I am delighted to be part of that tradition,” Sir Frank said.
The artist, who was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020, was born in Guyana in 1934 and arrived in London in 1953 at the age of 19.
By the early 1960s he was recognised as an original force in London’s art scene, with a style combining figurative, symbolic and collaged elements.
Rashid said: “These are kind of masterpieces.
“It is work that really signifies his practice as well, and is beautifully abstracted but has meaning,” she added.
“I think there are a really beautiful addition that can make art more broader and add really interesting and different views on what painting can do,” she said.