Cecil Ffrench Salkeld
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 Tostal 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 Dόlberg, 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.
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 Tostal 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 Dόlberg, 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.
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'FIGURE COMPOSITION - AN ALLEGORY OF TEMPTATION'
- Price Realised: 3,600
- Sale: 19 November 2002
- watercolour, gouache and gold ink on paper
- 30 by 23cm., 12 by 9in.
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'THE AUDITION'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 26 November 2012
- oil on canvas board
- 17.25 by 21.25in., 43.815 by 53.975cm.
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'FIGURES IN MOONLIGHT, WICKLOW'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 08 May 2002
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 47cm., 24 by 18.5in.
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'DIANA - WINTER LANDSCAPE'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- oil on canvas
- 65 by 50cm., 25.5 by 19.5in.
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'FIGURES BY A COTTAGE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE'
- Price Realised: 2,500
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on board
- 13½ x 17in. (34.29 x 43.18cm)
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'MOTHER AND CHILD'
- Price Realised: 2,500
- Sale: 26 November 2012
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 17 by 14.25in., 43.18 by 36.195cm.
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'ELDERLY MAN ON A PATH, 1935'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 29 May 2023
- oil on canvas
- 24 x 18in. (60.96 x 45.72cm)
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'CRIPPLED MAN ON PATH'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- gouache on canvas
- 61 by 46cm., 24 by 18in.
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'SAINT CECILIA, 1945'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 22 March 2021
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'A WALK IN GLENCREE'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 29 September 2014
- oil and pencil on canvas laid on board
- 13 by 9.5in., 32.5 by 23.75cm.
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'RAILWAY and CINEMA, 1931 (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 1,050
- Sale: 25 March 2024
- lithograph; (2)
- 7Ύ x 6Όin. (19.69 x 15.88cm)
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'PASTORAL IDYLL'
- Price Realised: 750
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- etching
- 17 by 14cm., 6.75 by 5.5in.
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'LEDA AND THE SWAN, 1928, and IDYLL II, 1929 (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 460
- Sale: 09 December 2006
- etchings (unframed)
- 13 by 10cm., 5.25 by 4in.