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Colin Middleton MBE RHA RUA (1910-1983)
April, West Tyrone
Oil on board, 30 x 30cm (11¾ x 11¾'')
Signed
Provenance: With the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, June 1977, label verso; Mr. &...
Colin Middleton MBE RHA RUA (1910-1983)
April, West Tyrone
Oil on board, 30 x 30cm (11¾ x 11¾'')
Signed
Provenance: With the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, June 1977, label verso; Mr. & Mrs. J. Rafferty, Ballynure, Co. Antrim; Taylor deVere's, March 1990, No.51; where purchased by the current owner.
The more formal abstraction of Colin Middletons landscape paintings of the 1960s and early 1970s, with their emphasis on repeated shapes and slow tonal gradations, began to soften in the mid-1970s. The stronger, more expressive colours that we see in April, West Tyrone demonstrate the effect of Middletons travels to Spain and Australia earlier in the decade.
The more traditional spatial arrangement of this landscape, the energetic brushwork of the foreground and sky and the imaginative and varied colours of the foreground, in particular, are reminiscent of the expressionist County Down landscapes Middleton painted in the 1950s.
Dickon Hall March 2017
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