In Connemara

Details

Paul Henry, R.H.A. (1876-1958)
In Connemara
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower left)
oil on panel
17¾ x 21¾ in. (45.1 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1925-30.

Provenance

Acquired by the original owner at the 1931 exhibition.
Mrs G.P. Buck, Bantford, Ontario, and by descent to Mrs Land, Hamilton, Ontario.
Anonymous sale; De Veres, Dublin, 30 September 1996, lot 55, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry, New Haven and London, 2000, pp. 96, 98, illustrated.
S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 228, no. 637, illustrated.

Exhibited

Dublin, Combridge's Gallery, Exhibition of Irish Landscapes & Scenes in Co. Wicklow, October 1931.
Belfast, Ulster Museum, Paul Henry: An Irish Portrait, November 1997 - April 1998, not numbered.
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Paul Henry, February - May 2003, no. 65.

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Lot Essay

In Connemara is dated 1925-1930 on stylistic grounds. Henry often produced compositions that are closely related to one another, mere variations on a theme. This is the case with the present picture as well as Going to the Creamery in Co. Tipperary, 1927-28 (Kennedy, 2007, no. 664), The Milk Cart, 1928-29 (ibid., 683), and Connemara Cottages, circa 1928-30 (ibid., 682), all of which employ a similar foreground set against variations in the background although, unusual for the time, the Going to the Creamery and Milk Cart pictures incorporate figures. In Connemara was issued as a colour reproduction by Combridge's, Dublin, in autumn 1931. It is inscribed 'The Village by the Roadside, Connemara' on the reverse, but possibly not in the artist's hand.

B.K.

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