Penny Day
Head of UK and Ireland
Lot 55AR
Paul Henry R.H.A.(Irish, 1876-1958)Achill Cottage, Lough Corrib 35.7 x 40.8 cm. (14 x 16 in.)
13 June 2018, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£60,000 - £80,000
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Kieran O'Boyle
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Paul Henry R.H.A. (Irish, 1876-1958)
Achill Cottage, Lough Corrib
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35.7 x 40.8 cm. (14 x 16 in.)
Painted in 1928
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35.7 x 40.8 cm. (14 x 16 in.)
Painted in 1928
Footnotes
Provenance
With The Fine Art Society, London
Private Collection, U.K.
Exhibited
London, Fine Art Society, Four Irish Artists: J.H. Craig, Paul Henry, E.L. Lawrenson, J. Crampton Walker, March 1928, cat.no.55
This is a fine Paul Henry at the height of his powers. When he first went to Achill Island in 1910 it was the people of the island which most attracted his attention. But from around 1915 he turned to the landscape itself. Later he wrote, 'One of my favourite walks was was to Saddle Head where I could lie on the turf and look out over Blacksod Bay and the 'Stags of Broadhave', and beyond that to the loneliest part of Ireland' (Paul Henry, An Irish Portrait, Batsford Ltd., London, 1988, p.81).
Achill Cottage, Lough Corrib is numbered 1337 in S.B. Kennedy's ongoing catalogue of Paul Henry's oeuvre and we are grateful to him for compiling this catalogue entry.