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Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958)
Connemara Hills (1924-30)
Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 31cm (12 1/4 x 10")
Signed
Provenance: Private Collection, Co. Dublin
Exhibited: Belfast, Ulster Museum 'Paul...
Paul Henry RHA (1877-1958)
Connemara Hills (1924-30)
Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 31cm (12 1/4 x 10")
Signed
Provenance: Private Collection, Co. Dublin
Exhibited: Belfast, Ulster Museum 'Paul Henry: An Irish Portrait' November 1997 - April 1998, unnumbered; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, 'Paul Henry' February - May 2003, Catalogue No. 77, illustrated p.106
Literature: S.B. Kennedy, 'Paul Henry, Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations,' Yale University Press, 2007, Catalogue no. 621, illustration p. 225
Despite its size, this small panel captures with awe the sense of spatial enclosure of the high mountain range which provides the setting.
It dates from a period when Henry, now based in Dublin, paid few visits to the West of Ireland and it would thus have been made from sketches done earlier. The strength of the image, the barely roughed in cottages perched on a small foreground promontory contrasting dramatically with the deep blue mass of the mountains which dominate the greater portion of the picture plane, shows the lasting influence of Post-Impressionism on Henrys compositional technique.
Dr. S.B.Kennedy (2003)
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