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Edgar Hubert 1906-1985
Abstract c.1937 Tempera on gesso panel 9 x 6 inches (22.8 x 15.2 cm) Chris Stephens has written that ‘Neglected by histories of twentieth century British art, Edgar Hubert produced some of this country's most radical abstract paintings of the 1930s. With Geoffrey Tibble and Rodrigo Moynihan, he was one of the main figures of the Objective Abstraction movement of 1933-7.’ Hubert had solo shows at The Mayor Gallery and was included in exhibitions at Lefevre and elsewhere. ‘Lawrence Alloway persuaded him to show in the ICA's Forty Years of Modern Art (1948). His work was shown twice in Paris: in the British Council's important La Jeune Peinture en Grande Bretagne (1948) and at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1949.’ Hubert was a friend and neighbour of Ben Nicholson and John Cecil Stephenson and the resonance with their formal abstraction can be seen in his Abstract which is painted in soft pastel colours on a satisfyingly thick gesso panel. |