ADAM'S - Important Irish Art Auction - 31st May 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Oil on board, 24.4 x 31.7cm (9¾ x 12½’’)

Signed

Provenance: Hector Boyd Hanna (1886-1982), Belfast; thence by family descent.

Henry is known to have been living in 1912-13 at Pullough, Achill Island. This picture certainly bears out the

typography of the area. The handling of paint, especially in the sky and the sea is characteristic of his early work,

the paint having been applied with bravura of brushwork.

After graduating from Oxford in 1909 Hector Hanna became assistant to Professor Robert Henry, Paul’s broth-

er, in the Department of Latin at Queen’s University in Belfast. He no doubt acquired this picture at an early

date.

An Early View of Pullough Bay, Achill

, is numbered 1318 in S. B. Kennedy’s on-going cataloguing of Paul

Henry’s oeuvre.

€ 20,000 - 30,000