Still Life Painting by Helen O'Brien Painting of a stoneware jug, two wine bottles and an apple. Jug is stoppered and sits on top of a box labelled "SUBLIMES LA HERMOSA". All atop a brown surface with a pink and blue striped background. Signed "HELEN" in blue lettering near bottom right hand corner; the year "1958" written in black pen on the reverse. Creased and slightly frayed around the edges. One of several items made by Helen O'Brien in the 1950s while being treated for miliary tuberculosis in Saint Patrick's Sanatorium, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon and Newcastle Sanatorium, Co. Wicklow. At the time, Dr. Noel Browne (1915-1997) worked in the latter and art classes, taught by Yann Renard-Goulet (1914-1999), were arranged for the patients there. Another object made by Helen during this period, a decorated box, is also held in the RCPI collections (ref. no. HI/2022-1L-3). 1958