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Desmond Morris (b. 1928)
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Desmond Morris (b. 1928)

Comparative Anatomy

細節
Desmond Morris (b. 1928)
Comparative Anatomy
signed with monogram and dated '48' (lower right)
oil (printer's ink), watercolour and crayon
8 x 13 in. (20.3 x 33 cm.)
出版
S. Levy, Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism, London, 1997, p. 49, illustrated.
S. Levy, Desmond Morris: Naked Surrealism, Antwerp, 1999, p. 49, illustrated.
S. Levy, Desmond Morris: Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 1944-2000, Antwerp, 2001, p. 130, illustrated.
展覽
London, Mayor Gallery, Desmond Morris: Works on Paper 1947-1988, November - December 1989, no. 2. Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery, Desmond Morris: Fifty years of Surrealism, June - July 1996, no. 86.
Nottingham, Woolerton Hall, Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism, September - November 1996, no. 86.
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拍品專文

This is the first of several 'comparative anatomies', in which Morris experimented with variations in the shapes of biomorphs. The figures are spread across the page and there is no attempt to convey a spatial setting or composition. These 'anatomies' are usually drawings rather than paintings, but in this case an oil monotype has been completed with coloured inks and watercolour. In a quasi-scientific manner Morris compares and differentiates biomorphic form. The notion of a 'comparative anatomy' had been impressed on Morris from an early age. As a child he one day happened to be rummaging around in the attic of the family home in Purton, Wiltshire. By chance he came across a 17th-century anatomy of internal organs, The Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts Begun by Nehemiah Grew, which contained strangely disembodied illustrations and diagrams of an array of biological vitals. The strangely contorted, almost abstract forms of intestinal tubes, bladders, gizzards aroused a fascinated wonder in the young boy's mind and were to haunt his imagination for decades to come.
S.L.