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Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003) A Silence (1991)Oil and collage on board, 61 x 122cm (24 x 48)Signed with initials (three times). Signed, inscribed with title, dated 25/1/91 and numbered 3261 verso. This is not the first painting with this title by Tony O'Malley As early as 1971, O'Malley had produced a painting also called A Silence. The earlier work, with its squarish format, almost completely blanketed in a dark black/brown central feature framed with a thin blue surround, is very different both in composition and palette to the work under discussion here. The repetition is an indication of O'Malley's love of contemplation, also shown in a 1965 painting entitled Winter Silence and two further paintings from 1967 called Winter Silence I and II respectively. Silence in O'Malley's work is evocative of death, stillness, the void, but, as in the present painting, it is also calls attention to its opposite, to sounds of various kinds. For O'Malley that nearly always meant birdson Tony O'Malley HRHA (1913-2003) A Silence (1991)Oil and collage on board, 61 x 122cm (24 x 48)Signed with initials (three times). Signed, inscribed with title, dated 25/1/91 and numbered 3261 verso. This is not the first painting with this title by Tony O'Malley As early as 1971, O'Malley had produced a painting also called A Silence. The earlier work, with its squarish format, almost completely blanketed in a dark black/brown central feature framed with a thin blue surround, is very different both in composition and palette to the work under discussion here. The repetition is an indication of O'Malley's love of contemplation, also shown in a 1965 painting entitled Winter Silence and two further paintings from 1967 called Winter Silence I and II respectively. Silence in O'Malley's work is evocative of death, stillness, the void, but, as in the present painting, it is also calls attention to its opposite, to sounds of various kinds. For O'Malley that nearly always meant birdson