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Cecil King Berlin Suite III 1970 - Lithograph King was a
successful business man who developed a significant collection of contemporary
art. In his mid-thirties he began to paint, holding his first solo exhibition
in 1959. Initially he worked in a semi-realist style, as seen in a number of
lyrical paintings and pastels known as the Circus series which were influenced by
artists such as Nicolas de Stael and Roger Hilton. King was a founding member
of the Rosc Exhibitions, and
through this involvement met important figures such as Barnett Newman whose
work influenced his artistic development.
In the early 1970s
he began the paintings known as the Berlin series - large scale colour field
works in which a narrow peripheral band creates a tension between figure and
ground. In these meticulously executed canvasses King made economical use of
simple elements. The play between the flat 'real' surface and the illusionist
third dimension was a continuing preoccupation in his work.
Cecil King was born in Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, in 1921 and died in 1986.
King was the subject of a major retrospective at the Hugh Lane Gallery, now Dublin City Gallery The
Hugh Lane, in 1981. He exhibited widely across Europe and his work is held in
the collections of many leading museums including the Museum
of Modern Art, New
York; the Victoria & Albert Museum,
London; Tate, London and numerous private and public
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Cecil King
Berlin Suite III 1970Signed LtdEd Lithograph,Framed39cm x 52cm (15.5" x 20.5")
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