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Cecil King

1921–1986

Red 1975
© The estate of Cecil King
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7 artworks by Cecil King
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Biography

Cecil King (22 February 1921 – 7 April 1986) was famous for his painting. 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 involve clean blocks of even colour cleaved at an acute angle. The break came in the late 1960s. He lived for many years in Blackrock on Idrone Terrace.

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

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Artworks

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  • Intrusion - Green

    Cecil King
    1974
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  • Intrusion - Red

    Cecil King
    1974
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  • Threshold - Black

    Cecil King
    1974
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  • Threshold - Orange

    Cecil King
    1974
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  • Blue

    Cecil King
    1975
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  • Orange

    Cecil King
    1975
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  • Red

    Cecil King
    1975
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