Stephen Gilbert (15 January 1910 – 12 January 2007) was a British painter, sculptor and architectural designer active in Paris. During the Second World War Gilbert and his wife lived in Dublin and were members of The White Stag Group. Gilbert was the paternal grandson of Sir Alfred Gilbert, a sculptor where he befriended fellow student Roger Hilton. Gilbert won the Slade Scholarship at the end of his first year, and the principal Sir Henry Tonks encouraged him to start painting from 1930. He also met sculptor Jocelyn Chewett at the Slade.
He also visited Max Walter Svanberg in Sweden. After his contact with CoBrA, his approach to painting became more abstract, but he remained in contact with Pierre Alechinsky after CoBrA dissolved. He exhibited several times at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles.
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- Works in the Tate Collection
- 2006 retrospective at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds