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Cecil Stephenson was described by Herbert Read as “one of the earliest artists in the country to develop a completely abstract style”. Though not today as well known as many of his contemporaries, (he exhibited with the 7 & 5 Society, along with Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and John Piper) he is now acknowledged as one of the key figures in the development of abstract art in Britain. This remarkable collection of small oils on paper date to the Second World War and were the inspiration for Stephenson’s last important cycle of large Abstracts which executed a decade later. history.Please click below for further details.