Irish & International Art 10th April 2017 : Click Lot Title for More info & Pictures.

signed ‘PAUL HENRY’ lower left

oil on canvas

35.60 x 41cm (14 x 16in)

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Sotheby’s, London, 21st May 1986, lot 183;

National Gallery of Ireland, (TD.2011.74) (label verso);

Private Collection

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

Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2007,

catalogue number 444, reproduced page 190

€60,000-80,000 (£52,173-69,565)

Reviewing Henry’s 1917 Dublin exhibition the Freeman’s Journal (16 April 1917)

commented, possibly of this picture, with its ‘solitary sail gliding over the dancing

waters’. The actual boat may be a Galway Hooker. In these years Henry painted

many pictures with boats (see Kennedy, 2007, numbers 448, 451, 452 and others).

The still waters across which the boat is sailing is echoed in the sky, with its

non-threatening clouds, and in the mountains. The setting may be Achill Sound,

in which case the far mountain is probably Slievemore, which rises to a height of

2,204 ft.

Dr. S.B Kennedy, March 2017