Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 31 MAY 2023

38 24 DANIEL O’NEILL (1920-1974) Interior with Figure Oil on board, 40 x 30cm (15¾ x 19¾”) Signed Provenance: With Waddington Galleries Inc., Montreal, Canada, label verso € 8,000 - 12,000 Belfast painter Daniel O’Neill made the decision to paint full time in 1945 having worked as an electrician in the Belfast Shipyards. He first exhibited with Victor Wad- dington in 1946, and later with the Dawson Gallery in Dublin in the 1960s. He moved to London in the late 1950s, finally returning to Belfast in 1969, where he continued to paint his highly recognisable portraits of women and girls as well as his haunting figures in landscapes. The evocative style and intense colours used by O’Neill make for poignant and expressive pictures, and he has often been described as a romantic painter.