Lot 33
COLIN MIDDLETON M.B.E. (IRISH 1910-1983) §
CARNMONEY - 1948
Auction: 16 April 2020 at 12:00 BST
Description
Signed, inscribed, numbered '36' and dated 'September 1948', oil on canvas
Dimensions
25.5cm x 35.5cm (10in x 14in)
Footnote
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Virginia Glenn.
Biography:
Colin Middleton is a significant Irish artist. Born in Belfast in 1910, he trained at Belfast School of Art and found his greatest artistic inspiration in the work of Van Gogh. He had his first solo exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in 1944, and went on to exhibit internationally. Over the course of his career, Middleton worked in theatre design, taught at art school and produced posters, poems, murals and mosaics. Middleton considered himself the only Surrealist working in Ireland in the 1930s, a contemporary described him as having ‘an inexhaustible capacity for wonder.’