Still Life with Flowers, 1926
Oil on Canvas
Signed and dated bottom left

Provenance
Redfern Gallery, London
Private Collection
50.4 x 61.0 cm (19¾ x 24 inches)

Provenance:
Redfern Gallery, London
Private Collection

Exhibition History:
Redfern Gallery, London

Notes:
Cedric Morris was a uniquely colourful figure in the art communities of Cornwall, Paris and London. From the late 1930s to the mid 1970s he co-directed the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, numbering both Lucian Freud and Maggie Hambling among its pupils. In 1940 the school moved to Morris’s home in Suffolk where he also gardened and grew irises. The Tate owns ‘Iris Seedlings’ 1940. Biographical dictionaries usually describe Morris as ‘painter and plantsman’. He was noted for portraits, landscapes, townscapes, still lives and paintings of animals and birds and it is in his flower paintings that the painter and plantsman may be said to combine. Morris approached his subjects in a direct, lively way which was as free of theories as it was of prejudices. He was proposed for the Seven and Five Society by Ben Nicholson in London and lectured at the Royal College of Art, London in the 1950s. His work is in numerous public collections. In 1984 the Tate mounted a memorial show which was followed by another at the Minories, Colchester in 2002.
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