Study for 'Footballers'

William Gear was a successful Scottish artist best known for his abstract works.

After the Second World War he spent a lot of his time working in Paris. The block-like forms that represent these football players were clearly influenced by the work of Parisian painter Nicolas de Stael, also renowned for his abstract and block-like representations of football in the early 1950s.

Also in the collection is the study in pencil for this piece.