DESMOND MORRIS b. 1928

The Witness

DESMOND MORRIS b. 1928

The Witness

1949
Stock Number: 14215/MB
Height 22.00cm [8.66 inches]
Width 32.00cm [12.60 inches]
Framed Height 41.00cm [16.14 inches]
Framed Width 52.50cm [20.67 inches]
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Catalogue Raisonné Title: The Witness
Mixed media on board
Completed September 1949
Monogrammed and dated: DM 49
Verso - Signed and titled: The Poet 11th July 1949

PROVENANCE
Collection Courtney Ross, Long Island, USA.

EXHIBITIONS
London Gallery, 1950, no 16
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1952, no 49
Mayor Gallery, London 1991, no.22
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, 1993 no. 7

LITERATURE
Sliviano Levy, Desmond Morris Analytical Catalogue
Raisonne 1944 -2000 pub 2001 p. 148
Full page illustration p. 149
Remy, The Surrealist World of Desmond Morris, 1991, p. 30