Stephen Gilbert
Stephen Gilbert, ink and watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1950.
Abstract composition. Signed S.Gilbert 1950. 24 x 13 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Yellowed. Minor stains.
Provenance
From Jan & Carin Krons collection.
Private collection.
Artist
Stephan Gilbert was born in Scotland, and began studying architecture in London at the Slade School of Art at nineteen years of age, and started painting (at the principals suggestion) in 1930. Gilbert moved with his wife (skulptor Jocelyn Chewett) to Paris and during WW2 they moved to Ireland afterwhich they once again returned to Paris. Gilbert is known as one of the few Brittish artists who adopted the 1950s french avante garde movement completely. He was greatly appreciated by Asger Jorn which led to him becoming the second brittish member of the COBRA group.
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