Whyte's Important Art - 30th September 2013 - page 46

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Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974)
FLOWER TREE
oil on board
signed lower right; with inscribed label
detailing title and provenance on reverse
19.75 by 15in. (50.17 by 38.10cm)
Label on reverse reads: “Flower Tree; by Dan O’Neill:
oil on board.This was painted sometime in the
early 1950s and is one of a number of
contemporary pictures on a similar theme. It was
amongst an assortment of paintings, sketches and
drawings given to and left with Sheilagh Deacon,
the artist’s friend and model. On her death in 1980
the painting came to Deacon’s sister of Woolwich,
the [then] present owner…” May 1996.
3,000-
4,000 (£2,560-£3,420 approx.)
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Anne Taylor (1907-1976)
THE DELUGE
watercolour
signed lower right; with inscribed exhibition
label on reverse
22 by 30in. (55.88 by 76.20cm)
Provenance:
William Rodman & Co., Belfast;
James Mullin, Belfast;
Brock Fine Arts, Blackrock, Co. Dublin;
Whyte’s, 19 February 2002, lot 190;
Private collection
Exhibited:
William Rodman & Co., Belfast, year unknown,
exhibition no. 31 [£31-10-0] (catalogue
untraced)
1,200-
1,500 (£1,030-£1,280 approx.)
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