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Paul Henry (1876-1958)
West of Ireland Bogland, (1934-9)
Oil on canvas on board, 39.5 x 49.5cm (15½ x 19½”)
Signed
Provenance: Sale, De Veres, 22 June 2004, lot 75, where acquired by the present owner
Literature: S. B. Kennedy,
Paul Henry: with a Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations
, New Haven
and London, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 254, catalogue number 778, reproduced
Possibly a scene in County Kerry, which Henry had visited in the autumn of 1934. Henry was enthralled with
Kerry: ‘It is lovely,’ he told to his American friend Richard Campbell (letter of 12 December 1934, James
Healy Papers, Stanford University Libraries). He continued: ‘Wherever one turns there is material for dozens
of pictures … Since I came back early in October I have been very busy working at my sketches & doing
some large things for exhibition’, no doubt a reference to his show at Combridge’s in May 1935. The warm
hues in the sky and the subtlety of the brushwork in the foreground reflect the artist’s more settled domestic
conditions at the time.
Dated 1934-9 on stylistic grounds.
Dr S.B.Kennedy
€40,000 - 60,000
