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Lot Essay
With its rich autumnal palette of golden hues and verdant greens, and rendered in Cedric Morris’ signature thick, luscious impasto, Hellebores Indoors is testament to Morris’ mastery of the still life genre. An abundant bouquet of trailing foliage, sunflower and hellebores commands the scene, as our eye is drawn to the subtle tones of the stoneware jar and window beyond. The composition is balanced by the softness and roundness of the perfectly placed eggs and apples in the foreground.
Morris was as keen a gardener as he was a painter, and he bred several plants which were duly named after him, including a rose, geranium, daffodil, poppies and irises. His gardens and flowers inspired other gardeners including Vita Sackville-West, Beth Ditto and Tony Venison.
Dr Audrey E. Evans (1925-2022) was a pioneering and world-renowned paediatric oncologist. Born in York, England, Evans graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1953, where she was the only female student. She soon moved to the United States thanks to a Fulbright fellowship, working at Boston Children’s Hospital where she trained under leukaemia pioneer Dr Sidney Farber, the ‘Father of modern chemotherapy’. Having then been recruited to create a paediatric oncology unit at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - which she would lead for over 20 years – she became known as the ‘Mother of Neuroblastoma’, increasing the survival rate of children with neuroblastoma by 50%. It was here that Evans recognised that accommodation in close proximity to the hospital caring for unwell children was vital for their families. Putting patients’ emotional, social and familial needs at the heart of her practice, Evans co-found the first Ronald McDonald House in 1974.
Morris was as keen a gardener as he was a painter, and he bred several plants which were duly named after him, including a rose, geranium, daffodil, poppies and irises. His gardens and flowers inspired other gardeners including Vita Sackville-West, Beth Ditto and Tony Venison.
Dr Audrey E. Evans (1925-2022) was a pioneering and world-renowned paediatric oncologist. Born in York, England, Evans graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1953, where she was the only female student. She soon moved to the United States thanks to a Fulbright fellowship, working at Boston Children’s Hospital where she trained under leukaemia pioneer Dr Sidney Farber, the ‘Father of modern chemotherapy’. Having then been recruited to create a paediatric oncology unit at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - which she would lead for over 20 years – she became known as the ‘Mother of Neuroblastoma’, increasing the survival rate of children with neuroblastoma by 50%. It was here that Evans recognised that accommodation in close proximity to the hospital caring for unwell children was vital for their families. Putting patients’ emotional, social and familial needs at the heart of her practice, Evans co-found the first Ronald McDonald House in 1974.