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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COASTAL LANDSCAPE WITH

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:40,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COASTAL LANDSCAPE WITH

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Auction Date:2005 Feb 22 @ 18:00 (UTC)
Location:Ireland
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COASTAL LANDSCAPE WITH COTTAGES, circa 1945-46 signed lower right oil on canvas laid on board 36 by 41cm., 14 by 16in. Provenance: Gift from the artist to the original owners, circa 1950; Thence by descent to a retired clergyman in Kent, late 1990s; Sold through Clarke Gammon Weller Auctioneers, Guildford, Surrey, 7 September 2004, Cottages on the West coast of Ireland; Private collection, Belfast Literature: ’Henry’s Cottages’ (saleroom report), Antiques Trade Gazette, 2 October 2004, p. 22, reproduced in colour This is clearly a late work by Henry and may possibly have been done in the summer of 1945 when he and Mabel Young stayed at Waterville in County Kerry. The scene has been set down briskly, although all the defining characteristics of Henry’s output are present: the clarity of the colours, with little or no over painting; the habitation in the middle distance; the dark strip of upland beyond which halts the eye’s recession. The use of lines to mark the water’s edge in the foreground can be found in some of Henry’s early works, such as Incoming Tide, 1911-13, but their use here also to outline the clouds is distinctly unusual for him and no doubt can be accounted for as it is such a late work, done when his health was fading. Dated circa 1945-46 on stylistic grounds. Coastal Landscape with Cottages is provisionally numbered 0144 in S. B. Kennedy’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Henry’s oeuvre. Dr S. B. Kennedy Belfast, January 2005