Cecil ffrench Salkeld
Cecil ffrench Salkeld (born July 9, 1904 in Karimganj , Assam , † May 11, 1969 in Dublin ) was an Irish painter .
life and work
Salkeld was born as the son of the colonial official Henry Lyde Salkeld and his wife Blanaid (1880-1959), who later became known as a writer and playwright. After his father's death, he returned to Ireland with his mother in 1910. At the age of 15 he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin with Seán Keating and from 1921 at the Art Academy in Kassel painting with Ewald Dülberg (1888–1933). Here he joined the New Objectivity Movement . In 1922 he took part in the Düsseldorf International Art Exhibition. In 1925 he returned to Ireland. In 1926 he received the Taylor Prize for the painting The Builders . 1931 friendship with Samuel Beckett.
In 1942 the mural Triumph of Bacchus was created in Davy Byrne's pub in Dublin, to which James Joyce erected a memorial in his Ulysses . In the mid-1940s he painted ballet scenes which he exhibited at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1944 . He also wrote articles on art theory in specialist journals and a play ( Berlin Duck , 1953). He was an Associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy. One of his students, who also portrayed him, was Reginald Gray . Salkeld's daughter Beatrice, also a painter, married the writer Brendan Behan in 1955 .
Works in public collections
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
- National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
literature
Theo Snoddy: Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century , Merlin Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-86327562-1 , p. 143 ff
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| SURNAME | Salkeld, Cecil ffrench |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salkeld, Cecil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karimganj , India (now Bangladesh) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1969 |
| Place of death | Dublin |