Lot 24 Daniel O'Neill

Daniel O'Neill 1920-1974 TRAMCAR DWELLING Oil on board, 18'' x 24'' (46 x 61cm), signed; inscribed artists label verso. The last Belfast tram left Harland & Woolf on the 27th of February 1954. After they went out of commission several of them were acquired and set up on Tyrella Beach as holiday homes. This charming and Bohemian scene shows a family going about their various everyday chores. The palette is typical of O'Neill, with its electric blues and intense reds alongside rich creamy whites. The figures are simplified but with a slightly more distinct sense of individual identity than is often the case in O'Neill's multi figure compositions.