SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)

Lot 15
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Lot 15 | SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)
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SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)

Richard Chopping

signed and dated 'CEDRIC MORRIS/41' (lower right)

oil on canvas

40 ¼ x 27 ¼ in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm.)

Painted in 1941.





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in the 1970s, and by descent to the present owners.



Literature

R. Morphet, exhibition catalogue, Cedric Morris, London, Tate Gallery, 1984, pp. 113-114, no. 74, illustrated.

J.L. Turner, The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller, London, 2016, pp. 63, 268, illustrated.



Exhibited

Benton End, The IXION Society, catalogue not traced.

Colchester, The Minories, Paintings by Cedric Morris, October 1959, no. 9, incorrectly dated 'circa 1945'.

Colchester, The Minories, Sir Cedric Morris Portraits 1919-1974, October - November 1974, no. 12.

London, Tate Gallery, Cedric Morris, March - May 1984, no. 72.
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