Adam's Important Irish Art Wednesday May 30th 2018

60 43 PAUL HENRY RHA (1877-1958) A Bog Pool in Wicklow Oil on board, 23 x 33cm (9 x 13’’) Signed; Inscribed in pencil verso Provenance: Sold in these rooms 27 May 1998, lot 32, as Sunset in the Mourne Mountains, reproduced in colour; Christie’s, London, ‘The Irish Sale’, 15 May 2003, as Sunset in the Mourne Mountains, reproduced in colour. Exhibited: 1936, Toronto, Canada (5); 1937, Dublin (13); 1938, Dublin (17). Literature: S.B. Kennedy, ‘Paul Henry - Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Catalogue No.912, as “In the Mourne Mountains” illustrated p.280. Reviewing Henry’s 1938 Dublin exhibition, entitled ‘Recent Paintings’, The Irish Times (12 November 1938) noted this picture for its ‘high atmosphere’. There is considerable impasto in the painting of the mountains, which is usual for Henry, with their direction of light clearly indicated. The sky too, as well as the foreground has much impasto. The foreground appears as scrub land, the water has an indication of paint dragged downwards, to the right is general recession, while the strip of blue paint is common in Henry’s work and the mountains are employed to halt the eye’s recession. This is a general view of the Wicklow Mountains. Previously it was known as ‘In the Mourne Mountains ’ but that is incorrect. Dr.S.B. Kennedy, April 2018 € 35,000 - 45,000