Organic forms

Details

Sir Cedric Morris (1889-1982)
Organic forms
signed and dated 'CEDRIC MORRIS/47' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 21 in. (71.1 x 53.4 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 December 2000, lot 139, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

probably Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, toured by the Welsh Arts Council, Cedric Morris Retrospective, June - July 1968, no. 74 (as Natura Morta, lent by Miss Esther Grainger).

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Lot Essay

Cedric Morris stated in 1928, 'I am inclined to believe that selection from natural forms is the expression of our national genius ... Neither has anyone exactly copied nature - for nature cannot be copied. From natural objects, I obtain line for lines sake, colour for colours sake, form for forms sake' (see Exhibition catalogue, Richard Morphet [ed.], Cedric Morris, London, Tate Gallery, 1984, p. 29).

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