Sir Cederic Morris, Bt. (1889-1982)

Several inventions

Details

Sir Cederic Morris, Bt. (1889-1982)
Several inventions
signed and dated 'CEDRIC/MORRIS/64' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.2 x 91.4 cm.)

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chase.

Exhibited

Colchester, The Minories, The Flower in Art, August-September 1967, no. 31.
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, Cedric Morris Retrospective Exhibition, June-July 1968, no. 96: this exhibition travelled to Merthyr Tydfil, Cyfartha Castle Gallery, August 1968; Wrexham, Public Library, August-September 1968; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Gallery, October-November 1968; and Colchester, The Minories, November-December 1968.
Bury St. Edmunds, Art Gallery, Paintings by Sir Cedric Morris, November-December 1978, no. 61.
London, Tate Gallery, Cedric Morris, March-May 1984, no. 100 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Morris was renowned for his exceptional garden at Benton End in Suffolk and particulary for his iris-breeding. In their article in Country Life, 17 May 1970, Christopher Neve and Tony Venison recorded that 'For many years the extensive lower garden at Benton End was entirely of irises ... the garden held about 1,000 of his new iris seedlings every year'.

The present work is one of a number of paintings showing a variety of the irises bred by Morris. A composition entitled, Iris Seedlings is in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London (see R. Morphet, Cedric Morris, Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, London, 1984, pp. 65-69).

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