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Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958)
Connemara Cottages (1942-3)
Oil on board, 34 x 39cm (13½ x 15½”)
Signed
Provenance: Combridge Gallery, Dublin; Bell Gallery, Belfast; Molly Lawrence, Belfast; her sale,
Ross’s, Belfast, 6 February 2002, lot 186, as Connemara Cottage [sic], reproduced in colour; private
collection
Literature: S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations,
New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 305, catalogue number 1044
Painted on one of Henry’s trips to the West of Ireland during 1942 or 1943. The impasto, es-
pecially on the mountains and in the foreground is heavier than is usual for Henry and lends a
monumental aspect to the composition.There are labels on the reverse of the Combridge Gal-
lery, with the number 97/8 and STOCK 473 DTX/-/-, and of the Bell Gallery.
Dr. S.B.Kennedy 2014
€40,000 - 60,000