Stephen Gilbert artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Untitled

The British painter and later sculptor Stephen Gilbert settled in Paris in 1938, producing abstract works that brought him into the Cobra movement in 1948 and led to a deep friendship with Constant. Trained as an architect, Gilbert began painting early on. He spent the war in Ireland, joining the White Stag Group there and adopting a spontaneous manner of painting dictated by his imagination. The works he produced during this period share a striking affinity with those of the Cobra artists. In the subsequent period until 1953 Gilbert developed a more abstract style. Thereafter he switched from spontaneous improvisation to producing three-dimensional metal structures.