SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)

Lot 120
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Lot 120 | SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)
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£ 40 000 – 60 000
SIR CEDRIC MORRIS (1889-1982)
The Bird
signed and dated 'C. MORRIS/.24' (lower right)
oil on board
21 ½ x 18 in. (54.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1924.
There is a landscape composition by the same artist on the reverse.




Provenance

The artist, by whom lent to the 1968 exhibition.
Mrs Joan O'Malley, by 1984.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1997, lot 81, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

The Little Review, Vol. II, Spring 1925, n.p., illustrated.



Exhibited

Benton End, The IXION Society, catalogue not traced.
Cardiff, Welsh Arts Council, National Museum of Wales, Cedric Morris: Retrospective Exhibition, June - July 1968, no. 106: this exhibition travelled to Merthyr Tydfil, Cyfartha Castle Gallery, August 1968; Wrexham, Public Library, August - September 1968; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, October - November 1968; and Colchester, The Minories, November - December 1968.
London, Tate Gallery, Cedric Morris, March - May 1984, pp. 100-101, no. 22, illustrated.
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