Adam's The Antoinette and Patrick J.Murphy Collection 23rd October 2019

44 30 PAUL HENRY RHA (1877-1958) The Bog Cutting (1919) Oil on canvas, 51 x 54.5cm (20 x 21.4“) Signed Provenance: Mabel Henry; Phillips, London, sale 23.11.1993, lot 13, where acquired by Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin; deVeres, Dublin, sale 16.04.2002, lot 224; with the Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin c.2000. Exhibited: London 1930; Dublin and Belfast 1973, lent by Mabel Henry (as An Irish Bog ); Dublin, March 1994 (as Bog Cutting, Connemara ); Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, ‘Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art’ , April-July 2019; Literature: S.B.Kennedy, Paul Henry, Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, 2007, cat. no. 528; NGI, Donal Maguire Ed., Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art , 2019, illustrated p.92. Brian Kennedy writes : ‘A similar composition to An Antrim Bog (CR 525) and A Western Landscape (CR 527). Almost certainly a scene in Co. Antrim, painted in the spring of 1919 when Henry visit- ed Cushendun. A label on the reverse reads ‘TCD 9’, presumably referring to Henry’s 1973 Dublin & Belfast exhibition.’ € 80,000 - 120,000