Post-War European & British Art: Dialogues in Abstraction

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Post-War European & British Art: Dialogues in Abstraction The Post-War artistic output in Europe reflected both a reassessment of identity and the need for dealing with the trauma left by the war; the numerous movements which appeared in the continent – including Cobra, Lyrical Abstraction, Zero Group, Tachisme – had at their root some form of reaction to previous artistic practices. In Britain, while the response to the aftermath of the war was largely one of introspection, for a group of artists the continental avant-garde still managed to inform and provided a fertile ground for artistic exchange between Britain and Europe. The present selection of works reflects this fruitful period and the dialogue between European artists and their British counterparts. All works are for sale


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