Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 30th April 2018 at 6pm

I RISH & I NTERNATIONAL A RT A UCTION M ONDAY 30 TH A PRIL 2018 AT 6.00 PM 35 Daniel O’Neill ( - ) WOMAN AND TWO CHILDREN signed top right and titled on reverse oil on board 46 x 35.5cm (18.11 x 14in) Provenance: Private Collection USA Daniel O’Neill was born in Belfast in 1920 and is considered one of Irelands finest Romantic Painters. Gina Lynam in her thesis, 1996 TCD, entitled “Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974) Landscape and Figure Painter” stated of O’Neill that, “he imbued everything he painted with a delicate, dreamy mood of serenity tinged with a certain melancholy.” O’Neill received a gallery contract from Dublin art dealer Victor Waddington in 1945 and went on to exhibit abroad in group shows held in Los Angeles, New York and Boston, Canada, London and Amsterdam. In 1949, he visited Paris where he was ex- posed to and heavily influenced by Rouault, Vlaminck and Utrillo. In a review of O’Neill’s paintings the Irish Times on 15th May 1953 referred to the “imaginative, often haunting, melancholic interaction between figure and environment, mood and circumstance”. €17,500-25,000 (£15,217-21,739)