Cecil Ffrench Salkeld Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Cecil Ffrench Salkeld Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 02, 2023
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURES BY A COTTAGE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURES BY A COTTAGE WITH MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE oil on board signed lower right h:13.50 w:17 in.
Whyte's
May. 29, 2023
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) ELDERLY MAN ON A PATH, 1935
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) ELDERLY MAN ON A PATH, 1935 oil on canvas signed and dated lower left h:24 w:18 in. Provenance: Whyte's, 17 September 2002, lot 29; Private collection 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 Tóstal 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 Dülberg, 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. Among the artist's best-known work are his murals, a triptych completed in 1942, in Davy Byrne's pub, Dublin.
Whyte's
Apr. 18, 2023
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld (1904-1969) That Little Tent of Blue
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld (1904-1969) That Little Tent of Blue oil on board signed 'SALKELD' lower right and titled verso h:51 w:25.50 cm. Provenance: James Adam's and Bonhams, Dublin, 8th December 2009 lot 174; Private Collection Exhibited: Cecil Ffrench Salkeld, Exhibition Victor Waddington Gallery, May 1945 cat. no. 28 The title of this work, That Little Tent of Blue is based on Oscar Wilde's poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol: "Upon that little tent of blue/which prisoners call the sky" Salkeld is perhaps poking fun at some friends, who appear to be heading home after a night's drinking. Seen through a window, the two men are walking, or staggering, along a pavement, illuminated by a shaft of light. There is a deliberate sense of enigma in the scene, which contrasts the domestic calm of the interior, with a book and flower on the windowsill, with the inebriated antics of the pair outside. The setting is not specified, but is intended to evoke the atmosphere of a prison or institution, the two men being surrounded by tall buildings and darkened windows. Born in Chittagong, India in 1904, Cecil Ffrench Salkeld grew up in Assam. When he was five years old, his father died and his mother returned to her home country, Ireland, where she worked as an author and was also an actor at the Abbey Theatre. As a child, Cecil attended an Irish summer school on the Aran Islands, where his teacher was Éamon de Valera. Although not involved in the War of Independence, in 1920 Salkeld was briefly imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail. The following year he went to Kassel in Germany, to study printmaking and illustration. He married Irma Taesler and in 1924 the couple settled in Ireland. Two years later he won the Taylor Scholarship with his painting The Builders. Salkeld's portrait of actor F. J. McCormick is in the Abbey Theatre, and in 1941 he painted murals, depicting well-known Dublin characters, in Davy Byrne's bar in Duke Street. He was active in Dublin's literary world, co-editing, along with Francis Stuart, the magazine To-Morrow. After a period in Germany, in 1937 he returned to Dublin and set up Gayfield Press, hand-printing Dublin Poets and Artists, pamphlets in which original woodcuts were matched with poems. One of his plays, on life in Germany, was produced in 1943 by the New Theatre Group. He also contributed articles to the Bell and Envoy literary magazines. Salkeld's interests extended to dance, and he became the first director of the Irish National Ballet. He was the inspiration for the character Michael Byrne in Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel At-Swim-Two-Birds. Generally undated, his paintings vary between surrealism and a realism inspired by the Neue Sachlichkeit art of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz. Peter Murray, March 2023
Morgan O'Driscoll
Dec. 07, 2022
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) The Bedroom Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50cm (16 x 19¾) Signed and dated (19)'43
Est: €5,000 - €7,000
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) The Bedroom Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50cm (16 x 19¾) Signed and dated (19)'43
Adam's
Sep. 28, 2022
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) The Ballet Oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm (20 x 24) Signed
Est: €5,000 - €8,000
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) The Ballet Oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm (20 x 24) Signed
Adam's
Sep. 28, 2022
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) Rock Temple, Vishnugram, India Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20) Signed
Est: €5,000 - €8,000
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904 - 1969) Rock Temple, Vishnugram, India Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20) Signed
Adam's
Mar. 22, 2021
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) SAINT CECILIA, 1945
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
signed lower right; inscribed and dated lower left
Whyte's
Mar. 27, 2018
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)The Diver - Whatever Your Walk in Life (1956)Pen and ink on scraper board, 22 x 22cm (8½ x 8½'')This work was part of a suite of designs for an unrealized ad campaign for The Irish Sweepstakes.
Est: €500 - €700
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)The Diver - Whatever Your Walk in Life (1956)Pen and ink on scraper board, 22 x 22cm (8½ x 8½'')This work was part of a suite of designs for an unrealized ad campaign for The Irish Sweepstakes.
Adam's
Jan. 31, 2018
Cecil Ffrench-Salkeld (1904-1969) Irish. "Port Bar CA 1938", Woodcut, Inscribed on label on reverse, 6. 3/8" x 4. 7/8".
Est: £100 - £200
Cecil Ffrench-Salkeld (1904-1969) Irish. "Port Bar CA 1938", Woodcut, Inscribed on label on reverse, 6. 3/8" x 4. 7/8".
John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers
Dec. 07, 2016
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Reclining Nude with KittenOil on board, 29 x 24.5cm (11½ x 9¾'')SignedProvenance: From the collection of the writer Percy Arland Ussher (1899-1980), a friend of the artist and thence by descent.
Est: €800 - €1,200
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Reclining Nude with KittenOil on board, 29 x 24.5cm (11½ x 9¾'')SignedProvenance: From the collection of the writer Percy Arland Ussher (1899-1980), a friend of the artist and thence by descent.
Adam's
Dec. 07, 2016
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Whatever Your Walk in Life (1956)Pen and ink on scraper board, 22 x 22cm (8½ x 8½'');Together with related preliminary sketches. (4)These were studies done as ads for The Irish Sweepstakes.
Est: €500 - €700
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Whatever Your Walk in Life (1956)Pen and ink on scraper board, 22 x 22cm (8½ x 8½'');Together with related preliminary sketches. (4)These were studies done as ads for The Irish Sweepstakes.
Adam's
Jun. 12, 2016
***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS INCORRECTLY ILLUSTRATED IN PRINTED CATALOGUE***CECIL fFRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969)Samson and DelilahReproduction print from pencil drawing, 24 x 18cmSigned and dated Sept 1938Provenance: From the collection of the w
Est: €50 - €70
***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS INCORRECTLY ILLUSTRATED IN PRINTED CATALOGUE***CECIL fFRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969)Samson and DelilahReproduction print from pencil drawing, 24 x 18cmSigned and dated Sept 1938Provenance: From the collection of the writer Percy Arland Ussher (1899 - 1980) and thence by descent to current owner.
Adam's
Jun. 01, 2016
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Cinema and RailwayPair, woodcuts, 23 x 17cm (9 x 6¾)Signed, inscribed with titles and inscription to Percydated Jan '31 (2)Provenance: From the collection of the writer Percy Arnold Ussher (1899 - 198
Est: €500 - €700
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)Cinema and RailwayPair, woodcuts, 23 x 17cm (9 x 6¾)Signed, inscribed with titles and inscription to Percydated Jan '31 (2)Provenance: From the collection of the writer Percy Arnold Ussher (1899 - 1980) and thence by descent to current owner.Literature: Another version of Cinema is illustrated in Irish Art and Modernism by Dr SB Kennedy Pg32 and mentioned on Pg42 that it shows his debt to Contemporary German print making and to his teacher at the Kunstakademie in Kassel in Germany Ewald Dulburg. A similar pair of woodcuts were exhibited in The Moderns IMMA 2010/2011 and illustrated in the accomanying book. P69
Adam's
Oct. 29, 2014
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) - Port Bar
Est: £400 - £600
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) - Port Bar woodcut, circa 1938, published by Gayfield Press, Dublin, on wove paper, with full margins, 163 x 126 mm (6 3/8 x 5 in) IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Dreweatts 1759
Oct. 29, 2014
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) - Brothel scene
Est: £400 - £600
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) - Brothel scene woodcut, circa 1938, published by Gayfield Press, Dublin, on wove paper, with full margins, 163 x 126 mm (6 3/8 x 5 in) IMPORTANT: This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Dreweatts 1759
Oct. 01, 2014
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Harvest
Est: €500 - €700
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Harvest Honeymoon Gouache, 13.5 x 12cm (5¼ x 4¾'') Signed. Signed, inscribed and dated Summer 1941 on label verso
Adam's
Sep. 29, 2014
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) A WALK IN GLENCREE
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) A WALK IN GLENCREE oil and pencil on canvas laid on board signed lower right; bears Frederick Gallery exhibition label on reverse 13 x 9½in. (33.02 x 24.13cm) Provenance: Mealy's, Kilkenny, 10 March, 1999, lot 1190; Private collection; de Veres, 12 April 2005, lot 133; Private collection Exhibited: Frederick Gallery, Dublin, Spring Exhibition 2000, catalogue no. 5
Whyte's
Dec. 04, 2013
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Leda
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
Cecil fFrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Leda (Beatrice Behan) Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20'') Signed Provenance: From the Collection of George and Maura McClelland and on loan from them to IMMA from 1999 - 2004; Private Collection Dublin Literature: ''The Hunter Gatherer'' IMMA 2005, illustrated p.133, Fig.136
Adam's
Nov. 26, 2012
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) THE AUDITION
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
signed lower left
Whyte's
Nov. 26, 2012
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) MOTHER AND CHILD
Est: €2,500 - €3,500
signed lower right
Whyte's
May. 30, 2012
Cecil French Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Figures in a
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
Cecil French Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Figures in a Street Oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm (24 x 20'') Signed Born in India Salkeld entered the Metropolitan School of Art at age fifteen. In 1921 he went to Kassel in Germany and studied under Ewald Dulberg. In 1924 he returned to Dublin and held his first solo show at the Dublin Painters' Gallery. He also exhibited in the New Irish Salon Exhibition in Mill's Hall, Dublin. After a lapse of ten years, he returned in 1939 to the RHA and from then until 1968 showed fifty-six works. The 1930s also saw his Gayfield Press in action. As owner and often operator of the hand press, he was responsible for all types of commercial art and publicity. In 1941 he painted wall panels in Davy Byrne's pub. Ballet scenes often formed the subject matter of his work in the 1940s.
Adam's
Apr. 04, 2012
CECIL FRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969) Leda and the
Est: €1,800 - €2,500
CECIL FRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969) Leda and the Swan, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 23.5" (60cms) x 19" (49cms). (1).
Mealy's
Dec. 05, 2011
CECIL FFRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969) 
Est: €4,000 - €6,000
CECIL FFRENCH SALKELD ARHA (1904-1969) Practice Oil on board, 49.5 x 39.5cms (19.5 x 15.5") Signed As well as being a painter Salkeld had a great interest in Ballet and in 1953 he founded the National Ballet School along with Russian dancer Valentina Dukto which invigorated the Irish Dance scene with its Russian legat form of teaching. From the school developed the first National Ballet company whose performances were enhanced by a host of visiting international stars. Ballet was naturally to feature in a number of works by Salkeld. According to Cara,Sidney Waddington's grand-daughter,Sidney was very interested in dance and ballet in particular which is probably why she bought this work.
Adam's
Jun. 01, 2011
Cecil French Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Nude at
Est: €2,000 - €4,000
Cecil French Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) Nude at Dressing Table Oil on board, 54.5 x 39.5cm (21.5 x 15.5") Signed
Adam's
Nov. 29, 2010
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969)
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
DIANA - WINTER LANDSCAPE; oil on canvas;
Whyte's
Oct. 04, 2010
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld (1904-1969)
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
ROCK TEMPLE, VISHNN-GRAM, INDIA
Whyte's
Sep. 27, 2010
Cecil Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) , Castle View
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
oil on canvas laid on board signed lower right
Morgan O'Driscoll
Dec. 08, 2009
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) That Little Tint
Est: €1,200 - €1,800
Cecil French Salkeld (1908-1968) That Little Tint of Blue Oil on canvasboard, 53.5 x 29cm (21 x 11.5) Signed, further signed and inscribed with title on a label attached to the backboard
Adam's
Apr. 01, 2009
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) The Climber
Est: €1,500 - €2,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) The Climber Oil on canvas, 41 x 51cm (16 x 20") Signed
Adam's
Mar. 02, 2009
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) LANDSCAPE
Est: €2,000 - €3,000
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) LANDSCAPE WITH CASTLE signed lower right oil on canvas laid on board 56 by 46cm., 22 by 18in>
Whyte's
Sep. 25, 2007
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) "Portrait
Est: €1,500 - €2,500
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) "Portrait of Lilian Davidson" Oil on board, 12 1/2" x 9" (32 x 23cm).
deVeres
Sep. 17, 2007
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) SAINT
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) SAINT CECILIA, 1945 signed lower right; inscribed and dated lower left oil on canvas 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
Whyte's
Dec. 09, 2006
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) LEDA AND THE SWAN, 1928, and IDYLL II, 1929 (A PAIR) each signed, dated and inscribed in lower margin
Est: €200 - €300
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) LEDA AND THE SWAN, 1928, and IDYLL II, 1929 (A PAIR) each signed, dated and inscribed in lower margin etchings (unframed) 13 by 10cm., 5.25 by 4in. The first one is inscribed beneath with a quote from W.B. Yeats:'A Shudder in the loins engendered there, The Broken wall, The burning roof and Tower'. 2)
Whyte's
Feb. 17, 2004
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) PASTORAL IDYLL signed and dated [December 1927] lower right; inscribed "A/iv R. Boyd-Morrison with best
Est: €700 - €900
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) PASTORAL IDYLL signed and dated [December 1927] lower right; inscribed "A/iv R. Boyd-Morrison with best wishes" lower left etching 17 by 14cm., 6.75 by 5.5in. Robert Boyd Morrison (1896-1969) was a Belfast born artist and theatrical designer, who in 1927 commissioned Salkeld to submit costume designs for his book The Robes of Thespis, 1928, of which Morrison was co-editor. See Snoddy, pp.435, 586.
Whyte's
Nov. 19, 2002
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURE COMPOSITION - AN ALLEGORY OF TEMPTATION signed in monogram, inscribed and dated [2 September 1923] on
Est: -
Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURE COMPOSITION - AN ALLEGORY OF TEMPTATION signed in monogram, inscribed and dated [2 September 1923] on reverse watercolour, gouache and gold ink on paper 30 by 23cm., 12 by 9in. Inscribed on reverse: "Painted in the year 1923, 2nd September, RŸsnov bei BrŸsov in Romania". This work is the first known record of Salkeld's travels in Romania, painted at the mere age of 19. A precocious artist, Salkeld first enrolled at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1919, where he quickly mastered basic drawing and painting techniques. Within two years he had left to further his artistic studies at the Kassel Academy in Germany, where he received tutelage from Ewald Dulberg (1888-1933). Here too he encountered the New Objectivity movement with which Otto Dix is associated. Salkeld's interest in the starkly outlined forms of German avant-garde woodcuts, as well as the brightly coloured and decorative surfaces of Eastern European folk art, here combine to produce a work of indubitably good design and visual appeal. E2,500-3,500 (IR E2,000 2,700 approx.)
Whyte's
May. 08, 2002
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURES IN MOONLIGHT signed lower right oil on canvas 61 by 47cm., 24 by 18.5in. E3,000-4,000 (IR
Est: €3,000 - €4,000
Cecil ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURES IN MOONLIGHT signed lower right oil on canvas 61 by 47cm., 24 by 18.5in. E3,000-4,000 (IR E2,300-3,100 approx.) As a member of the Dublin Painters group, as well as a poet, playwright and owner of the Gayfield Press, Cecil Salkeld was at the forefront of the avant-garde in Irish arts and literature. He studied art in Kassell in the early 1920s, coming under the influence of Otto Dix and the New Objectivity movement. Upon returning to Dublin, he aligned himself immediately with the modernists, showing works with the New Irish Salon and the Radical Painters' Group among others. Reviewing an exhibition of his at the Victor Waddington Galleries in 1945, the Dublin Magazine commented on Salkeld's "original, sombre palette, intellectually rather than emotionally conceived". The present work is thought to date to the 1940s and may relate to a series of panels which Salkeld painted for Davy Byrne's pub, including one titled 'Night: Party at the End of the Day' (ref. Snoddy, pp.585-587).
Whyte's