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Important Irish Art | 28th September 2016
Grey Fields (1965)
Oil on board, 60 x 60cm (23½ x 23½’’)
Signed with monogram; Also signed, inscribed and dated 1965 verso
While each decade of Colin Middleton’s work demonstrates fresh ambitions and innovations, there remains a remarkable consistency between different
periods. Grey Fields, 1965, shares the rigorous and austere investigation of the Irish landscape that dominates his paintings in the 1960s, but the repeated
square patterning of the present work also recalls the 1942 painting Thinking of Antwerp (National Museums Northern Ireland), flattening and uniting the
picture surface, with a similar use of diagonals or triangles to create passages of space as the eye moves from foreground to background. The geometric
emphasis of many of these later landscapes does not detract from their subtle evocation of the effects of light and changing weather on a very specific place.
Dicken Hall, September 2016
€ 3,000 - 5,000