Cedric Morris
Blackbird and Flowers, 1952
oil on canvas
85.8 x 111.8 cm; 33 3/4 x 44 1/8 in
JC20
© The Estate of Cedric Morris/ Bridgeman Images
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 November 1989, lot 141 as Blackbird.Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 5 June 1992, lot 56.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 24 November 1993, lot 68 as Blackbird and pears where purchased.
Exhibitions
Norwich, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines: Teaching, Art and Life, October 2002 - January 2003, no 39: this exhibition toured to Cardiff, National Museum and Gallery, January - April 2003.Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: Revealed, February - April 2014.
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, October 2016 - January 2017.
London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, 8-12 June 2018.
London, Mall Galleries, The Art of Collecting, 27 June - 6 July 2018.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
Colchester, Firstsite, Life with Art: Benton End and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, December 2021 - April 2022
Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield, Dutch Flower Paintings, June-September 2023.
Literature
Exhibtion Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.22, illustrated.B. Tufnell, exhibition catalogue, Cedric Morris and Lett Haines: Teaching Art and Life, Norwich, Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2002, p. 68, illustrated.
Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 33.
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