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Cedric Morris

Cedric Morris

cedric morris still life with cabbages

Cedric Morris

Cabbages, 1953
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 in. (101.5 x 127 cm)
Signed and dated: Cedric Morris 53 (lower right)
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To view all current artworks for sale visit philipmould.com This is one of Cedric Morris's largest and most accomplished still-life works and has only recently come to the market, having...
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This is one of Cedric Morris's largest and most accomplished still-life works and has only recently come to the market, having been in the same collection since it was acquired from the painter in the 1950s.

Morris was a modern-day Renaissance man, equally renowned as an inspirational teacher, pioneering botanist, talented painter and convivial host. Though Morris achieved critical and commercial acclaim in London, he disliked establishments, dealers and the strictures of London society. Instead he, alongside his partner Arthur Lett-Haines, created at their Suffolk home, Benton End, an unorthodox and bohemian artistic hub, where Lucian Freud, amongst many others, began their studies at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing.

The gardens that Morris created at Benton End garnered him international fame: he was highly regarded as a plant collector, often gathered on his travels, and plant propagator, particularly of irises. Morris’s deep and thorough knowledge of botany was undoubtedly the bedrock of his paintings, suffused as they were with his profound appreciation for each and every plant. These plants and produce were imbued with personality, taking on anthropomorphic qualities and seemingly having their own interior lives. Traditional still life painting takes on, under Morris’s paintbrush, an unorthodox modernist sensibility, part way between Surrealism and Expressionism.
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Provenance

Acquired from the artist in the 1950s by Felicity Wakefield;
Thence by family descent until sold in 2020;
Private collection, UK

Exhibitions

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Pictures for an Exhibition, March – May 1980, no. 30, as ‘Summer Cabbages’
London, Tate, Cedric Morris, 28 March – 13 May 1984, no. 90, p. 117, illustrated p. 16
London, The Garden Museum, Cedric Morris: Artist Plantsman, 18 April – 22 July 2018, illustrated p. 54
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