Cecil King (painter)

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Cecil King (1921 – 1986) was an Irish abstract-minimalist painter.

Born Rathdrum, County Wicklow, Ireland, King was largely self-taught as an artist. He had his first one-man show in 1959, but worked as a businessman and did not become a full-time artist until 1964. While he began painting in an expressionist style, his mature works have a distinctive cool minimalist formality and often involves clean blocks of even colour cleaved at an acute angle.

A retrospective of his work was held at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery in 1981, another retrospective will open in the Irish Museum of Modern Art on 27 February 2008 [1].

[edit] Work in Collections

• Dublin City University:
  • Thrust
• The Arts Council of Northern Ireland:
  • Berlin Painting
• The Arts Council of Ireland:
  • Berlin Painting 21 (1970)
  • Traverse, '84 (1984)
• The National University of Ireland, Galway:
  • Untitled tapestry (1974)
• Trinity College, Dublin:
  • Berlin Painting (1970)
  • Berlin Painting (1971)
• The Tate, London
• The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
• The Government Art Collection, UK

[edit] References and external links

• David Scott (1989), The modern art collection, Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. ISBN 1-871408-01-6