CECIL RILEY, BRITISH, 1917 - 2015, A LARGE TRIPTYCH OIL ON B...

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£1,500 - £2,500

CECIL RILEY, BRITISH, 1917 - 2015, A LARGE TRIPTYCH OIL ON BOARD
Titled ‘City of Love, 1994’, signed, titled, dated and inscribed on the reverse, pine framed.
(243cm x 122cm)

N.B. Cecil Riley, was born in Yorkshire but spent much of his life in London and West Cornwall. He studied at the Slade School of Art, where he met his wife, a fellow artist. For the majority of his early career Riley lived in London, working as a sketch artist for British Lion Films and as an art teacher. However, in the 1970s, Cecil moved to the West Coast of Cornwall, where he remained until his death in 2015. Here, Riley became a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, winning various prizes for his work and exhibited across the country, including at the Royal Academy in London