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Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)
Estimate:
€2,000 - €3,000
Sold
€2,200
Live Auction
Irish & International Art
Size
24 by 18in. (61 by 45.7cm)
Description
Title: ELDERLY MAN ON A PATH, 1935
Note: As a member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright, dramatist, broadcaster, philosopher and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature.He was a Renaissance man of his time who interlinked the arts in a way which he had observed in Germany but which was entirely forward-thinking for Ireland at the time.Salkeld's mother was an actress with the Abbey Theatre as well as a poet and playwright. His daughter Beatrice was married to Brendan Behan while his other daughter also pursued a career on the stage. He was producer of radio programmes on the arts, director of cultural events for An Tóstal as well as director of the Irish National Ballet. Salkeld, who was born in India, studied art in Germany at Kassell Kunstchule in the early 1920s under Ewald Dülberg, whose style was in the manner of the Rheinland Primitives. There he also came under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement and upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, adapting his style to contemporary life in the Irish capital. He exhibited with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Among the artist's best-known work are his murals, a triptych completed in 1942, in Davy Byrne's pub, Dublin.
Frame dimensions: 30 by 24in. (76.2 by 61cm)
Note: As a member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright, dramatist, broadcaster, philosopher and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature.He was a Renaissance man of his time who interlinked the arts in a way which he had observed in Germany but which was entirely forward-thinking for Ireland at the time.Salkeld's mother was an actress with the Abbey Theatre as well as a poet and playwright. His daughter Beatrice was married to Brendan Behan while his other daughter also pursued a career on the stage. He was producer of radio programmes on the arts, director of cultural events for An Tóstal as well as director of the Irish National Ballet. Salkeld, who was born in India, studied art in Germany at Kassell Kunstchule in the early 1920s under Ewald Dülberg, whose style was in the manner of the Rheinland Primitives. There he also came under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement and upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, adapting his style to contemporary life in the Irish capital. He exhibited with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Among the artist's best-known work are his murals, a triptych completed in 1942, in Davy Byrne's pub, Dublin.
Frame dimensions: 30 by 24in. (76.2 by 61cm)
Condition
Excellent condition.
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
signed and dated lower left
Provenance
Whyte's, 17 September 2002, lot 29;Private collection
