Roadside Cottages, below Mweelrea Mountain

Details

Paul Henry, R.H.A. (1876-1958)
Roadside Cottages, below Mweelrea Mountain
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower right)
oil on panel
14 x 16 in. (35.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1940.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 September 1994, lot 141, as 'Roadside Cottages, Killarney Bay, below Mweelrea Mountain'.
The Daly Settlement.

Literature

S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 231, no. 652, illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The view almost certainly looks west from the road south of Delphi in County Mayo. The foreground water may be Fin Lough. Mweelrea mountain rises to a height of 817 metres. Although it is dated 1925-40 in Kennedy 2007, the fluidity of the paint and brushwork and the overall brightness of the colours suggest a date closer to 1940.

We are very grateful to Dr Brian Kennedy for his assistance in preparing the catalogue entries for lots 167-169.

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