Adams Important Irish Art 23rd March 2016 : You can Download a PDF Version from the Bottom Menu Down Arrow Icon

Oil on panel, 17.5 x 20.5cm (7 x 8”)

Signed with monogram. Another abstract Composition verso.

Still life paintings occur rarely in Colin Middleton’s work, with a small number of flower paintings in the late 1930s and

very early 1940s, and then a series of more gestural and abstracted paintings of sunflowers in the 1960s, but occasion-

ally he also integrated flowers as a crucial detail within the landscape, as in the present painting or in Edge of the Fields

(1957). Both these paintings use the bright colour and strong, flattened leaf forms to assert the surface of the canvas

and to add drama to the distance into which the landscape stretches.

Dickon Hall

€ 3,000 - 5,000