Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 25th September 2024

Important Irish Art | 25 September 2024 www.adams.ie 23 12 COLIN MIDDLETON RHA RUA (1910-1983) Two Figures Oil on panel, 30.5 x 30.5cm (12 x 12’’) Signed with artist’s device; also signed, dated and inscribed verso Provenance: With Bell Gallery, Belfast, label verso € 3,000 - 4,000 By the mid-1960s Colin Middleton was begin- ning to move away from the more austere ab- straction that had often dominated his work at the beginning of that decade, with a softer palette matching his less rigorous treatment of form. The female archetype remained central to his work, and the present painting can be relat- ed to a series of rather calligraphic and subtly eroticised images of women that he worked on in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dickon Hall, August 2024