Irish & International Art Auction 5th December 2016 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures & Picture for in frame.

signed ‘PAUL HENRY’ lower left

oil on board

51 x 61cm (20 x 24in)

Provenance:

Gorry Gallery, Dublin;

Mrs Anne Ledwith, 1957;

Thence by descent;

Adam’s, Dublin 23rd March 2005 Lot 26;

Private Collection

Literature

: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustra-

tions, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2007, p. 253, catalogue number 772

€120,000-180,000 (£104,347-156,521)

This is one of several compositions (cf. The Village by the Lake, Kennedy, 2007, cat. no. 613;

West of Ireland Landscape with Cottages, Kennedy, 2007, cat. no. 614; and The Village by the

Lake, Kennedy, 2007, cat. no. 632), all of similar imagery, which Henry painted in the mid-1920s

and 1930s. While the venue cannot be identified in any of these pictures they are almost certainly

scenes in Connemara.

Moderate impasto has been employed throughout and good use has been mane of the underlying

board, as ground. As is common in Henry’s work, a little heavier impasto has been used in the

mountains, the strip of water in the middle distance and in the foreground. The scene is serene and

is a good example of Henry’s work. Dated 1930-8 on stylistic grounds.

Dr. S.B. Kennedy, November 2016