Paul Henry R.H.A. (1876-1958)
The Great Blasket Islands
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower right), inscribed 'Blasket Islands' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm. (15 x 18 in.)
Painted circa 1936-37
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower right), inscribed 'Blasket Islands' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm. (15 x 18 in.)
Painted circa 1936-37
Sold for
£55,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
Gifted to Mr E Bristol, 1937, Dublin
Thence by descent
EXHIBITED:
Dublin, Combridge's Gallery, Recent Paintings of Kerry and Wicklow by Paul Henry, from 12 November 1937, cat.no.20
This work was presented to Mr Bristol (Divisional Manager) on his retirement by The Irish Supervisory Staff of The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd. and has remained in the same family ever since.
Inscribed Blasket Islands on the canvas overlap. An almost identical view of the Blasket Islands as in S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, number 878, p.273. Great Blasket Island is numbered 1237 in S. B. Kennedy's ongoing cataloguing of Henry's oeuvre.
We are very grateful to Dr. Kennedy for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Category: Fine Art / Modern British and Irish Art
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