Name: DESMOND MORRIS (B.1928)
Brand: Comparative Anatomy
Price: 1700.00 GBP
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DESMOND MORRIS (B.1928)
Comparative Anatomy
signed twice with monogram and dated '48' (lower right)
printer's ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
8 x 13 in. (20.2 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1948.

The Poetry of Crisis: The Peter Nahum Collection; Christie's, South Kensington, 15 November 2006, lot 57, where purchased by the present owner.

S. Levy, Desmond Morris: 50 Years of Surrealism, London, 1997, pp. 49, 208, no. 37, illustrated.
S. Levy, Desmond Morris: Naked Surrealism, Ghent, 1999, pp. 49, 224, no. 37, illustrated.
S. Levy, Desmond Morris: Analytical Catalogue Raisonné 1944-2000, Antwerp, 2001, p. 130, no. 94, illustrated.

London, Mayor Gallery, Desmond Morris: Works on Paper 1947-1988, November - December 1989, exhibition not numbered.
Stoke on Trent, City Museum and Art Gallery, Desmond Morris: 50 years of Surrealism, June - July 1996, no. 86, ex. cat.: this exhibition travelled to Nottingham, Woolerton Hall, September - November 1996.

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