WILLIAM GEAR (1915-1997) Composition Mixed media... Lot 31

WILLIAM GEAR (1915-1997) Composition Mixed media with pastel and gouache on paper, signed. This work is known as one of the earliest from the artist's youthful period. Provenance : Scottish private collection. Size: 32 x 24 cm Scottish painter born in Methil in Fife, he studied Fine Arts at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1932 to 1936 and then History of Art also in Edinburgh. Gear received a travel grant in 1937 which allowed him to come to Paris for two years where he studied under Fernand Léger. Author of abstract compositions, he joined the Cobra movement (initials of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam), founded by Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Corneille, a movement that advocates an abstract gestural painting influenced by primitivism and children's art.