Culture That Made Me: Desmond Morris on Picasso, Brando and a pet chimpanzee
Desmond Morris: The painter behind 'The Naked Ape'.
Zoologist and artist Desmond Morris, 95, grew up in Swindon, England. In 1950, he shared an art exhibition at the National Gallery, London, with Joan Miró. He has presented hundreds of wildlife programmes on British television. In 1967, he published The Naked Ape, his seminal study of human behaviour, which has sold over 20 million copies. In 2019, a year after his wife passed away, he moved to Co Kildare to live. Dún Laoghaire Institute of Visual Art, which is run by his granddaughter Tilly Morris, is his gift to Ireland. See: www.divadunlaoghaire.com
