Lot 32: Cecil Ffrench Salkeld ARHA (1904-1969) FIGURE COMPOSITION - AN ALLEGORY OF TEMPTATION signed in monogram, inscribed and dated [2 September 1923] on

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.)