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DESMOND MORRIS The Springing Season.
Oil on board, 1950-51. 348x605 mm; 13 3/4x23 7/8 inches. Initialed and dated in oil and titled in pencil, verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Miami; Christie's, New York, July 17, 2012, sale 2573, lot 182; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: Arnold Herstand and Company, New York, Surrealism: from Paris to New York, May 12-July 31, 1990, with the label.
Morris (born 1928) studied zoology at Oxford and began his career in the television industry. During the 1950s, he studied the picture-making abilities of apes and both created and hosted several television programs on zoology topics for Granada TV, London. Morris wrote The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal, 1967, and also became an accomplished artist with a Surrealist style, exhibiting his work at the Taurus Gallery, Oxford.
