![]() ![]() ![]() The artist stopped painting in the late 1960s due to her deteriorating eyesight, sadly shortening her career as she was producing some of her most important works, making her intricate works quite rare to the open market. Similar works by the artist, 'For lo, winter is past', 1963 and 'A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die', 1965 can be found in Derby Museums, near where the artist lived. Standing in a ring, one coloured deep red, they become evocative of an ancient ritual. Here, however, these leafless trees or perhaps vines become the subject themselves, twisting like ancient figures in an expansive landscape. In her earlier works, such as 'L'infante égarée', 1944 (Manchester Art Gallery) and 'Medusa Grown Old', 1947 (Rediscovering Art by Women Collection), these would serve as a backdrop to her figures, their winding forms and shadows creating an additional tension to the work. Jack Bilbo At David Zwirner Gallery London: 24 Grafton Street September 4 Octo. Bilbo is survived by his daughter, Merry, and his grandson, the artist Ben Woodeson. This enigmatic, large work focuses on anthropomorphised trees, a subject that the artist would return to throughout her career. Bilbo was reinstated as a German citizen in 1956 and returned to live in his native Berlin, where he continued to paint and exhibit until his death in 1967. ![]()
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