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Auction archive: Lot number 12

MEETING POINT, 1965 Cecil King (1921-1986)

Important Irish Art
31 May 2010
Opening
€800 - €1,200
ca. US$1,005 - US$1,507
Price realised:
€950
ca. US$1,193
Auction archive: Lot number 12

MEETING POINT, 1965 Cecil King (1921-1986)

Important Irish Art
31 May 2010
Opening
€800 - €1,200
ca. US$1,005 - US$1,507
Price realised:
€950
ca. US$1,193
Beschreibung:

MEETING POINT, 1965 Cecil King (1921-1986)
Signature: signed in pencil lower right; with inscribed David Hendriks Gallery label on reverse Medium: pastel on paper Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in. Provenance: Provenance:David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin Exhibited: Exhibited:'Cecil King', David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, May - June 1965, catalogue no. 24 The Hendriks Gallery as well as the Oliver Dowling Gallery played host to several solo exhibitions of Cecil King’s work. In his introductory essay to a King exhibition in 1986, Dennis O’Driscoll comm... mented on the difficulty with classifying the artist’s work, noting that “abstract” was sufficient in terms of a definition of style, but decidedly inadequate in terms of a description. He notes that, “…as entirely non-representational works, they are easily placed in this bracket [abstract], however, there is a universality about their connection with the viewer through King’s unique rendering of space and colour. more

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
31 May 2010
Auction house:
Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd
Molesworth Street 38
Dublin 2
Ireland
info@whytes.ie
+353 (0)1 676 2888
Beschreibung:

MEETING POINT, 1965 Cecil King (1921-1986)
Signature: signed in pencil lower right; with inscribed David Hendriks Gallery label on reverse Medium: pastel on paper Dimensions: 25 by 36cm., 10 by 14in. Provenance: Provenance:David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin Exhibited: Exhibited:'Cecil King', David Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, May - June 1965, catalogue no. 24 The Hendriks Gallery as well as the Oliver Dowling Gallery played host to several solo exhibitions of Cecil King’s work. In his introductory essay to a King exhibition in 1986, Dennis O’Driscoll comm... mented on the difficulty with classifying the artist’s work, noting that “abstract” was sufficient in terms of a definition of style, but decidedly inadequate in terms of a description. He notes that, “…as entirely non-representational works, they are easily placed in this bracket [abstract], however, there is a universality about their connection with the viewer through King’s unique rendering of space and colour. more

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
31 May 2010
Auction house:
Whyte & Sons Auctioneers Ltd
Molesworth Street 38
Dublin 2
Ireland
info@whytes.ie
+353 (0)1 676 2888
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