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

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 21 st O ctober 2019 at 6.00 pm 121 93 Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974) The Lonesome Curragh, Donegal signed lower left oil on board 30.5 x 40.5cm (12 x 16in) Provenance: Private Collection €6,000-8,000 (£5,309-7,079) Daniel O’Neill is an extremely popular artist, particularly for his figurative paintings, character studies which often have an air of drama, even mystery about them. Less well known, perhaps, are his many compositions relating to boats in sweeping shorelines setting. This is an especially bold example in which the prow of the currach rises like a predatory beak from the water, cutting into the horizontal rhythm of the broadly brushed swathes of land, sea and sky.