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HARRY PHELAN GIBB, SURREALISM ENGLAND 1870 - 1948
Assemblage and Tromp l'Oeil
1930 circa - 1935
Collage, gouache, painted metal and wood
Dimensions: 82.50 cm x86.00 cm
Born in Alnwick, Northumberland, Phelan Gibb was the first British artist of his kind and a little ahead of his time.Having studied in Edinbugh, Paris, Antwerp and Munich he exhibited in group exhibitions at Salon d'Automme, the Allied Artists' Association as well as the Wertheim, Alpine and Redfern Galleries and also in New York. Sir William Van Horne, quoted in Lucy Wertheim, Adventures in Art, 1947
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The Poetry of Crisis, British Art 1933-1951 Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries
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