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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COTTAGES ON KILLARY BAY

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:60,000.00 - 80,000.00 EUR
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COTTAGES ON KILLARY BAY

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Auction Date:2005 Feb 22 @ 18:00 (UTC)
Location:Ireland
Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) COTTAGES ON KILLARY BAY, circa 1934-39 signed lower left; remains of inscribed label on reverse; title inscribed in pencil in another hand on reverse oil on panel 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in. Provenance: With the framing label of the Bell Gallery, Belfast; Private collection, Belfast; Sold in June 2000 to Eakin Gallery Belfast; Thence sold in the same year to a private collector, Co. Antrim The simple rigour of this composition, with its closely modulated ‘Whistleresque’ blue tones in the background and middle distance, which contrast with the warm ochres and browns of the foreground, shows the Post-Impressionist influence that lingers in Henry’s work. The sense of stillness, absence of people with a yet omnipresent human bearing are also characteristic of him. The fluidity of the paint and overall freshness of the composition suggest that this was painted in or around 1934 when he first visited Co. Kerry, after which both his mood and his palette lightened considerably. The title is indistinctly inscribed on a label on the reverse, but is also fully inscribed there, in another hand. There is also on the reverse a label of the Bell Gallery, Belfast, as framers. Dated circa 1934-39 on stylistic grounds. Cottages on Killary Bay is provisionally numbered 0313 in S. B. Kennedy’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Henry’s oeuvre. Dr S. B. Kennedy Belfast, January 2005