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Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958)
!e Potato Diggers (1910-11)
Oil on canvas, 71 x 81.5cm (28 x 32”)
Signed
Provenance: Acquired from the artist in the 1930s and thence
by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
:
Paintings of Irish Life: Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry,
Pollock’s
Gallery, Belfast, 14-27 March 1911 (33, as Potato Digging)
Paintings by Mrs. Frances Baker, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, Casimir
Dunin-Markiewicz and George Russell (AE
), Leinster Hall, Dublin,
16-21 October 1911 (27, as Potato Diggers)
Paintings of Co. Mayo, Ireland (Synge’s Country) by Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Henry
, Allied Artists’ Association, London, till 17 February 1912
(10, as Potato Diggers)
Pictures of the West of Ireland by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry,
Mills’ Hall,
Dublin, 16-28 April 1917 (39)
Paintings by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry
, Magee’s Gallery, Belfast, from
14 April 1920 (10); Paul &Grace Henry: Irish Life and Landscape,
Leicester Galleries, London, from 6 January 1921 (50)
New Irish Salon,Mills’Hall, Dublin, 8 February-6 March 1926 (2)
Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings & Small Sculpture
by
Artists Resident in Great Britain & the Dominions
, Imperial Art
Gallery, Imperial Institute, London, 12 April-30 June 1927 (123)
Paintings and Charcoals: Paul Henry RHA
, Waddington Galleries,
Dublin, 21 February- 3 March 1952 (16);
AnTostal: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture
, International Hotel,
Bray, 8-22 April 1953 (49)
Some Paintings by Modern Irish Artists
, Crawford School of Art,
Cork, April-July 1960 (15, reproduced) Paul Henry 1876-1958;
Paul Henry Retrospective Exhibition
, Trinity College, Dublin
and Ulster Museum, Belfast, October 1973-January 1974 (7,
reproduced)
Irish Art and Modernism 1880-1950
, Lane Gallery, Dublin and
Ulster Museum, Belfast, 20 September 1991-26 January 1992
(6, reproduced in colour)
Literature
: Arthur Power, ‘
Reassessments-17: Paul Henry
,’ Irish
Times, 29 June 1971, p. 8, reproduced
S. B.Kennedy:
Irish Art andModernism
1920-1949, unpublished
Ph.D. thesis, University of Dublin, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 34, 37,
reproduced in colour vol. 2, pl.1
‘Paul Henry: An Irish Portrait’, Irish Arts Review, Yearbook
1989-90, 1989, p. 45, reproduced in colour p. 46
Irish Times, 20 December 1989, p. 12 reproduced
Irish Art and Modernism 1880-1950, Belfast: Institute of Irish
Studies, 1991, pp. 19, 23, 216-7 reproduced in colour; Paul
Henry, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2,000,
pp. 46-7 reproduced in colour, 143
Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings,
Illustrations, New Haven and London, Yale University Press,
2007, pp. 34, 42, 62, 88, 89, 154, catalogue number 295,
reproduced in colour; Kenneth McConkey,
A Free Spirit: Irish
Art 1860-1960,
London, Antique Collectors’ Club and Pyms
Gallery, 1990, p.159, reproduced in colour.
