Colin Middleton RHA RUA MBE (1910-1983) Reclining Figure Oil on board, diptych, 23 x 40cm (9 x 18'') Signed Provenance: From the collection of the late William O'Sullivan, former Keeper of...
Colin Middleton RHA RUA MBE (1910-1983) Reclining Figure Oil on board, diptych, 23 x 40cm (9 x 18'') Signed Provenance: From the collection of the late William O'Sullivan, former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin; and his sale in these rooms September 2001, cat. no. 83 where purchased by the current owner Exhibited: Colin Middleton Exhibition, April 1967, cat. no. 21, where purchased by Mr & Mrs William O'Sullivan By the late 1960s Colin Middleton had evolved a pared-down and complex formal language through which his paintings were able to unite the treatment of the landscape and the female form, the two subjects that held the most enduring interest for him. This is one of a small number of paintings from 1967 that are painted on two square panels side by side; the heavily gessoed surface and the abstract left panel reinforce the painting's two-dimensionality and establish a sense of tension with the description of volume in the right-hand panel. Despite the level of abstraction Middleton still manages to evoke the sensuality of the female figure.
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