Our customer came to us with four treasured postcards, sent by Desmond Morris, zoologist, ethologist, and surrealist painter, best known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape; A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal.
Alongside his academic and media career, Morris continued to create paintings in a Surrealist style. His art career spanned 70 years of his long life, though for decades his paintings were not widely known. Gradually they featured in exhibitions and were bought by public galleries, including the Tate in London. In 2017 his paintings were the subject of a BBC Four documentary The Secret Surrealist. Morris continued to paint Surrealist artworks quite prolifically into his nineties.
We were asked to frame the cards to show the front, featuring Morris’s artwork, and also the back to show the personal message.
The cards were framed to Conservation Level, to best preserve them for the future.