Artist of the day, April 25, Cecil King, Irish abstract-minimalist painter. (#676)

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. The break came in the late 1960s.

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1959, Dark Deserted Buildings

1965, Emerging

1965, Night image

1966, Pastel

1970, Berlin pastel

1970, Berlin Suite IV

1971, Nexus

1972, Nexus I

1973, Intrusions

1974, Intrusion - Green

1974, Intrusion - Red

1974, Threshold - Black

1974, Threshold - Orange

1975, Blue

1975, Red

1977,  Peak III

1977, Two

1980, Baggot St. Series

1984, Untitled

1984, Vent

1985, Verge

Celtic motif

City scape

Organic form

Red abstract 

Sunder

Thrust - A group of three abstract works

Traverse detail

Two Fruit pastel

Untitled

Verge

Work from a private collection