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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, Dublin,
16-28 April 1917 (44, as “The Sound”)
Literature: S. B. Kennedy,
Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations,
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) commented,
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 cata-
loguing of Paul Henry’s oeuvre, number 1280).The setting may be south east of Achill Sound, in
which case the distant mountain is Derreen.
€30,000 - 50,000
