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Description: | Signed and dated 1947 lower right
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Signed, titled and dated "January 1948" CRE GEAR, William; (Scottish; 1915-1997) Gear trained at Edinburgh College of art 1932-6. Thereafter, his career was interrupted by war service. After demobilisation in 1947 he moved to Paris from where he sent paintings to his first one-man show at Gimpel fils Gallery in London in 1948. In 1949 he exhibited in the first important exhibition of the Cobra group, dedicated to non-figurative painting. Cobra takes its name from the initials of the cities of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, from where most of the leading members came. Exceptionally there were two Scottish artists, William Gear and Stephen Gilbert in its membership. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | LANDSCAPE : ABSTRACT : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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