Adam's Important Irish Art & Irish Historical Documents December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More Info

198

Abstract in Green, Grey and White

Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 121cm (60 x 47½’’)

Signed verso

Provenance: ‘Contemporary and Modern Art’ sale, these rooms, June 2007, Catalogue No.45,

where purchased by the current owner.

Cecil King was born in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow . He originally was an ardent collector but was encouraged to

paint by Barbara Warren and Nevill Johnson but was largely self taught. He held his first one man exhibition

in 1959 at The David Hendriks Gallery a relationship that was to continue till 1980 with a total of nine solo

exhibitions there. By the mid/late-1960’s he had adopted his cool minimalist style with blocks of colour cleaved

at acute angles which was to be his style for the rest of his painting career. His work is included in all the major

collections here in Ireland and retrospectives of his work were held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in 1981

and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2008.

€ 3,000 - 5,000