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

Born Rathdrum, Co 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.

Work in Collections

Dublin City University:
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The Arts Council of Northern Ireland:
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The Arts Council of Ireland:
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The National University of Ireland, Galway:
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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 1871408016

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