Lot 64: Dermod O'Brien PRHA (1865-1945) Man Ploughing a

Dermod O'Brien PRHA (1865-1945) Man Ploughing a Field Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 60cm (15.5 x 23.5") Provenance: Inherited directly from the artist A larger version of this picture (private collection, Dublin) was used to illustrate O'Brien's work in "Twelve Irish Painters", 1940, produced by The Waddington Galleries. O'Brien, who had inherited the Cahirmoyle Estate in Co. Limerick always prefered the palette to the plough hence the title of Lennox Robinson's book on him "The Palette and the Plough". Dermod O'Brien used the Ploughman as influence for his banknote design for the Irish Currency Commission.