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Sir WilliamOrpen RHA RA RI (1878-1931)
The Master of those that Know
Pencil on paper, 18 x 22.5cm (7 x 9”)
Drawn on the notepaper of Oliver St. John Gogarty and from his
collection
This is a portrait of Henry Stuart McCran (Professor of Moral
Philosophy, T.C.D.)
Literature:
Oliver St. John Gogarty, As I was going down Sackville
Street
, New York edition, illustrated facing page 334
(photostat verso)
€1,000 - 1,500
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Paul Henry (1876-1958)
The Storm c.1898-9
Charcoal on paper, 36 x 44 cm (14 x 17¼”)
Signed
Provenance: Private collection, London thence by descent
Exhibited: Goupil Gallery Salon, London, October-December, 1908 (130);
Goupil Gallery, London, March, 1909 (226);
Water Colour Society of Ireland, Mills’ Hall, Dublin, March, 1920 (122);
Paintings by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry
, Magee’s Gallery, Belfast, 17-31 March, 1924 (23);
Paintings and Charcoals: Paul Henry RHA
, Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 21 February-3 March, 1952 (29);
Paintings and Drawings by Paul Henry
,The Studio, Sidmonton Square, Bray, until 8 November 1956 (27);
Paul Henry: Retrospective Exhibition
, Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, and Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, Belfast, May-
July, 1957 (73);
Paul Henry: Paintings & Drawings
, Shannon Free Airport, Limerick, August, 1957 (35)
Literature; S. B. Kennedy:
Paul Henry,
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000, p.39; Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the
Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale, 2007, p.128, catalogue number 151
Reviewing Henry’s 1924 Belfast exhibition, Belfast’s News-Letter (18 March 1924) commented, possibly of this drawing, that it ‘conveys
a wonderful sense of elemental fury.... In the foreground are two tall gaunt, leafless trees, bending over before the onslaught of the storm
… and overhead the sky is filled with heavy onimous clouds.’ Priced at 12 guineas (£12.12) in the 1908 Goupil Gallery Salon exhibition
catalogue, this was considered a finished drawing and not merely a sketch. Although the literary reference in Kennedy, 2007, illustrates
another drawing, that reference now seems undoubtedly to refer to this work. Dated c.1898-9 on the form of the signature.
Dr. S.B. Kennedy, October 2014
€8,000 - 12,000
