Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 21st October 2019

142 120 Simon Coleman RHA (1916-1995) Ploughing (1946) signed and dated ‘46 lower right oil on canvas 41 x 51cm (16 x 20in) Provenance: Gorry Gallery, Dublin; Private Collection €900-1,200 (£796-1,061) Landscape and portrait painter Simon Coleman was born in Duleek, Co. Meath and studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art from 1933. He commenced exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1940 and contributed some two hundred works until 1979. Works by Coleman are held in many public and private collections.