ADAM'S - IMPORTANT IRISH ART, WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Oil on board, 30 x 30cm (11¾ x 11¾’’)

Signed

Provenance: With the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, June 1977, label verso; Mr. & Mrs. J. Rafferty, Ballynure, Co. Antrim;

Taylor deVere’s, March 1990, No.51; Private Collection.

The more formal abstraction of Colin Middleton’s landscape paintings of the 1960s and early 1970s, with their emphasis on

repeated shapes and slow tonal gradations, began to soften in the mid-1970s. The stronger, more expressive colours that we

see in

April, West Tyrone

demonstrate the effect of Middleton’s travels to Spain and Australia earlier in the decade.

The more traditional spatial arrangement of this landscape, the energetic brushwork of the foreground and sky and the

imaginative and varied colours of the foreground, in particular, are reminiscent of the expressionist County Down landscapes

Middleton painted in the 1950s.

Dickon Hall March 2017

€ 3,000 - 5,000