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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)
The Fisherman's Cottage (1916-17)
Oil on board, 66 x 76cm (26 x 36")
Signed
Exhibited: Probably Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1931 (number 79); Ulster Academy of Arts, Museum & Art Gallery, Belfast, October 1932 (number unknown), reproduced in an unidentified press cutting; Royal Academy, London, 1933 (number 172).
Provenance: Acquired from the artist and thence by descent to the present owner.
Although it was probably not exhibited until the RHA show in 1931, judged stylistically this painting must date to around 1916-17. The setting is near the village of Dooagh on Achill Island, and the distant promontory is Moyteoge Head. The figure in the picture resembles that in Whitewashing, 1910-11 (number 294 in S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2007). A label on the reverse, in the artist's hand, reads: 'THE FISHERMANS COTTAGE BY PAUL HENRY CARRIGOONA COTTAGE KILMACANOGUE CO. WICKLOW'. There is also a label of the Royal Academy, London, relating to the 1933 exhibition, and two further labels of James Bourlet & Sons, no doubt as transporters to one or more of these exhibitions, but no details. An almost identical composition to A Cottage by the Sea, of the same date (Kennedy, 2007, number 450), which illustrates Henry's practice of working on more than one variation of a composition at a time, although in size and execution-note, for example, the handling of the impasto on the breaking waves-this painting is particularly majestic and may have been painted when Henry was living nearby at Pulloch. The Fisherman's Cottage is numbered 1245 in S. B. Kennedy's ongoing cataloguing of Paul Henry's oeuvre.
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Sold for €240000
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| Important Irish Art Sale in Assoc. with Bonhams
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| James Adam Salerooms |
| 8 December 2009 |
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