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31 PAUL HENRY RHA (1877-1958)Connemara Landscape with Cottages
Oil on canvas, 30 x 38cm (11¾ x 15’’)
Signed
Literature: ‘Smurfit Art Collection 2001’ Full page illustration P 67
Judged stylistically
Connemara Landscape with Cottages
seems to be a late work by Paul Henry. The low
horizon line, with band of blue hills which halt the eyes recession, the main narrative of the scene confined to
a narrow strip of land in the middle distance are characteristic features of Henry’s compositional technique.
The mood of the scene, with its overall sense of tranquillity is also a trait that pervades his whole oeuvre.
Dated 1940/45 on stylistic grounds.
“Connemara Landscape with Cottages”
is provisionally numbered 1310 in Dr S.B. Kennedy’s on-going cata-
logue Raisonné of Paul Henry’s work.
Dr S.B. Kennedy
€ 40,000 - 60,000