Desmond Morris British, b. 1928
1947/1 PORTRAIT, 1947
Pastel on Paper
22 7/8 x 17 3/8 in
58 x 44 cm
58 x 44 cm
Completed January 1947 Medium: Pastel on paper. 15 x 12 in., 38 x 30.5 cm. This is the first of a series of pastels of human heads, four of which...
Completed January 1947
Medium: Pastel on paper. 15 x 12 in., 38 x 30.5 cm.
This is the first of a series of pastels of human heads, four of which survive, where the images appear to be assembled from a collection of irregular, interlocking segments resembling biological cells. A similar device was used, much later, in the 1960s, by Jean Dubuffet.
Exhibition: Swindon Public Library, January 1948, no. 1
Publication: Catalogue Resume, p94/95
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