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Paul Henry RHA RUA(1876-1958)
Sailing Boat on a Lough, (1916-17)
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 40.5cm (14 x 16”)
Signed
Provenance: From the Collection of George &Maura McClelland and on loan from them to
IMMA from 1999 - 2004; Private Collection Dublin
Exhibited: Possibly
Pictures of the West of Ireland by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry
, Mills’ Hall, Dub
lin, 16-28 April 1917 (44, as “The Sound”)
Literature: S. B. Kennedy,
Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustra
tions
, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 190, catalogue
number 444.
Reviewing Henry’s 1917 Dublin exhibition the
Freeman’s Journal
(16 April 1917) comment-
ed, possibly of this picture, with its ‘solitary sail gliding over the dancing waters’. In the early
1940s Henry made two pictures similar in concept to this, namely
The Fishing Boat
(Kennedy,
2007, catalogue number 1057, reproduced) and
Landscape with a Fishing Boat
(Kennedy,
ongoing cataloguing of Paul Henry’s oeuvre, number 1280).The setting may be south east of
Achill Sound, in which case the distant mountain is Derreen.
€50,000 - 70,000
