Cecil King (painter)

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 [http://www.modernart.ie/en/page_170558.htm] .

Work in Collections

* Dublin City University:
** [http://www.dcu.ie/arts/12.htm "Thrust"]
* The Arts Council of Northern Ireland:
** [http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/collection/artists/art89.htm "Berlin Painting"]
* The Arts Council of Ireland:
** [http://www.artscouncil.ie/gallery/details.asp?id=482 "Berlin Painting 21" (1970)]
** [http://www.artscouncil.ie/gallery/details.asp?id=483 "Traverse, '84" (1984)]
* The National University of Ireland, Galway:
** [http://www.nuigalway.ie/arts_office/artcollection.php?cId=32 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

References and external links

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