A lesson in art & life : the colourful world of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines
St. Clair, Hugh2023
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Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally - prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). Both men studied in Paris in the 1920s where they absorbed the work of the French Post Impressionists, Cubists and Surrealists. Later in London, Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, and a friend of Augustus John and Ben Nicholson. Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. They gave fabulous parties attended by the cream of creative London. Morris and Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling.
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Author:
St. Clair, Hugh, author
Edition:
Revised and updated edition.
Imprint:
[London] : Pimpernel Press Ltd, 2023.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781914902055 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
759.2B/MORR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2608833
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