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Paul Henry RHA (1876 - 1958) Fishing Boats, Dugort Oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm (20 x 24'') Signed Provenance: Purchased by the current owners' father from Combridges, 1940 and thence by descent....
Paul Henry RHA (1876 - 1958) Fishing Boats, Dugort Oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm (20 x 24'') Signed Provenance: Purchased by the current owners' father from Combridges, 1940 and thence by descent. Exhibited: Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, 1957 ''Paul Henry Retrospective Exhibition'' Cat. No. 60, which then toured to Belfast Museum and Gallery; 1977 Wexford Arts Centre ''Irish Art from Private Collections 1870 - 1930'' Cat. No. 17; 2003 The National Gallery of Ireland ''Paul Henry Retrospective Exhibition'' Cat. no. 93 Literature:''Paul Henry'' by Dr SB Kennedy 2003 NGI Illustrated P 123 ''Paul Henry - catalogue Raisonne of his works'' by Dr SB Kennedy 2007 Cat No. 1037 illustrated P 304. The subject matter of fishing boats is one to which Paul Henry returned from time to time. The village of Dugort is situated on the northern shore of Achill Island in County Mayo. The beach to the left is almost certainly Pollawaddy and the cottages in the foreground lie beside the road running east from Dugort. The mountain in the background is Slievemore, which dominates the landscape of the Island. It was to Dugort that Henry went when he first arrived on Achill in August 1910. But even then he found the village busy with tourists. 'Every second house seemed to be an hotel or boarding house', he later wrote, and so the morning after his arrival he set off for the much quieter village of Keel in the south of the island, where he subsequently established himself, taking rooms with John and Eliza Barrett who ran the post office in Keel. Moving from Dugort to Keel, Henry would have travelled along the road depicted here and he was enthralled with the scenery. 'Never shall I forget my delight and astonishment on that drive,' he wrote (Henry, An Irish Portrait, 1951, p. 3). The bright palette and clear, unmuddied colours which are a feature of this composition typify Henry's later work. Dr. S.B. Kennedy, May 2012
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