WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 29 MAY 2023 AT 6PM

36 21 Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) ELDERLY MAN ON A PATH, 1935 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left 24 by 18in. (61 by 45.7cm) Frame Size: 30 by 24in. (76.2 by 61cm) Provenance: Whyte’s, 17 September 2002, lot 29; Private collection 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. €2,000-€3,000 (£1,750-£2,630 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot21