Tomorrow Perhaps

Details

Daniel O'Neill (1920-1974)
Tomorrow Perhaps
signed 'D O'Neill' (lower right) and inscribed 'TOMORROW PERHAPS' (on the reverse)
oil on board
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Victor Waddington, Montreal.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 May 1998, lot 154, where purchased by the present owners.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Susan Stairs comments on O'Neill's landscapes, 'Landscape for O'Neill was emotive when it was desolate, decaying, strange or barren. He did not as a rule, find inspiration in fertile pasture or picturesque vistas. He used, like his contemporaries, landscape as a means to examine and express his own personal consciousness ... Landscape for O'Neill was a vehicle for his love of nature. He found pleasure in all natural forms - shells, flowers, stones, trees - and used them to create compositions of forlorn beauty' (The Irish Figurists, Dublin, 1999, p. 139).

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