© The artist's estate
Composition, Blue Centre
Artist: William Gear (1915 - 1997)
Location: Towner Art Gallery and Local Museum
Date: 1949
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 47 x 62cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,882 (Total: £3,840)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 5313 (2003)
Provenance:
Private collection.
Description:
Gear served as curator to the Towner Art Gallery from 1958-64 and this painting is from the artist's period in Paris (1947-50), as evidenced from the French date inscribed on the reverse. The use of bold colours contained within irregular black lines is characteristic of this period when Gear was at the forefront of abstraction in Europe, creating angular almost dirty compositions that contributed significantly to Cobra's expressionist re-invention of modernism following the wholescale destruction of world war.
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