A tale of two worlds

THE popularity of the mid-20th-century artists who coalesced around Great Bardfield in the 1930s, and Dedham, both Essex, where Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines established the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, continues to grow and Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet is well placed to exploit it. As recorded here on November 13 last year, , by artistplantsman Morris, took £204,160 against a £30,000–£50,000 estimate. A portion of the proceeds was donated to the Benton End House and Garden Trust, which preserves Morris’s studio