Artist: Phelan Gibb
Date: 1907
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 53.1 x 44 cm
Credit: Towner Collection, the Lucy Wertheim Bequest. Image Towner Eastbourne
Phelan Gibb was born in Northumberland and studied in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Antwerp and Munich, before settling in Paris where he lived for twenty-five years. There he moved in the same circles as Picasso, Matisse and writer Gertrude Stein and was influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne. At the height of his career in 1913, he was one of the few British artists invited to exhibit in the International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York. Returning to England at the outset of the First World War Gibb’s career, like many artists, suffered and as a result and financial hardship followed for many years.