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Paul Henry RHA (1876 - 1958)
Turf Stacks, West of Ireland
Oil on canvas, 35 x 40cm (13¾ x 15¾”)
Signed
Provenance: Sold in these rooms, Dublin, 2 December 1982, lot 38, as West of Ireland Bo-
gland Scene with Mountains in Distance; sold again in these rooms, Important Irish Art
Sale, 14 May 1987, lot 118, as West of Ireland Bogland Scene, where purchased by current
owner.
Exhibited: “Exhibition of Pictures by Paul and Grace Henry”, Mills’ Hall Dublin, 9-23
April 1918 (number unknown)
Literature: “Paul Henry: with a Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations” by
S.B. Kennedy, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2007, p. 242, Cat. No. 701.
The setting for this composition is almost certainly the low lying area around Ballycroy,
Bangor Erris and Pollatomish in north County Mayo, where Paul Henry worked as
paymaster for the Congested Districts Board during 1917-18.The marshy foreground,
with its pools of water amply fed by the prevailing weather, illustrate and artist’s ex-
citement with the area. Dated 1928-33 in Kennedy, 2007, but that was before the exact
form of the signature was known.
Dr S.B. Kennedy
€25,000 - 35,000