Stephen Gilbert : 1910 - 2007
Composition
1945
Born in Fife -
During the war he was a member of the Irish group 'White Stag Group' .
According to Willemijn Stokvis' recent masterpiece on Cobra he painted most of
his Cobra paintings during the war.
These paintings and drawings consist of a mythical world of bird-insects,
skull-butterflies, Jumpin-jack-insects and other strange creatures.
I see some of these figures being close to some of the fantasy figures in
Carl-Henning Pedersens early drawings and paintings, only close, as Cobra
embraced wide.
He exhibited in
This contact had a great impact on Gilbert, he saw that he was close related to
these people in his art.
He was very involved in the 'Bregnerod congress', visited Svanberg in
After this meeting with Cobra his style changed to a more abstract style, as
shown on the cover of 'CobraBibliotheket' volume 10 from 1950, see further
down.
Stephen Gilbert on Wikipeda
About other Cobra artists
Piere Alechinsky
Else Alfelt
Karel Appel
Mogens Balle
Ejler Bille
Corneille
Christian Dotremont
Sonja Ferlov
Stephen Gilbert
Svavar Gudnason
Henry Heerup
C. O. Hultén
Egill Jacobsen
Asger Jorn
Erik Ortvad
Carl-Henning Petersen
Max Walter Svanberg
Anders Österlin
Cover of Cobra Bibliotheket
vol. 10 - 1950