Not on display
- Artist
- William Gear 1915–1997
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1160 x 890 mm
frame: 1323 x 1054 x 55 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1991
- Reference
- T05850
Display caption
The Scottish artist William Gear was in Paris after the war and was briefly associated with the International expressionist Cobra group. This work demonstrates how he moved away from Cobra towards the kind of controlled abstraction being practiced by a number of the younger French painters in which a prominent grid structure is combined with references to landscape. In this painting the artist disposes areas of natural colour to suggest a crystalline structure in nature.
Gallery label, August 2004
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