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Lacewing Fine Art
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Medium
oil on board
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Signed/Inscribed/Dated
signed & dated 1908. Entitled verso
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Dimensions
39.50inch wide
51.00inch high
(100.33 cm wide 129.54 cm high)
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Literature:
Bibl Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940
Bibl Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs by E. Benezit
Bibl Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945
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Exhibition History:
Exhibited Salon D’Automne, Wertheim, Alpine & Redfern Galleries, RHA, RSA & in New York (Katz Gallery) and with the Swedish sculptor Edstom at controversial Allied Artist Exhibition at the Albert Hall organised by Frank Rutter.
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Description / Expertise
Painter and potter, born Almwick, Northumberland, the son of the artist T.H.Gibb. Harry Phelan Gibb studied in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Paris (under Laurens), Antwerp & Munich.
For 25 years he lived & worked in Paris where he was influenced by the work of Cézanne & Van Gogh.
Elected Associate of the Salon d'Automnein 1909. His work was highly thought of by the writer Gertrude Stein (1874-19460, a friend of Matisse & Picasso who had been living in Paris from 1904, also by Roger Fry & dealer Lucy Wertheim. She supported him & his wife in their declining years
Died Great Hampden, Bucks, 25 Oct 1948
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