Student and friend of Cedric Morris, Lucien Freud, recalls being told that Morris was known as ‘the Cézanne of Newlyn’.

In 1917 Cedric Morris travelled to Cornwall for the first time and stayed for a year studying wildlife and painting watercolours.

Gurnard’s Head, the subject of this work, is a headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula which became home to an astounding range of 20th century British creatives.

Cedric Morris, ‘Gurnard’s Head’, 1932.

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