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Turf Stacks
Details
PAUL HENRY, R.H.A. (1876-1958)
Turf Stacks
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1934-40.
Turf Stacks
signed 'PAUL HENRY' (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1934-40.
Provenance
with Combridge Fine Arts, Dublin.
Mrs C. Crawford.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1975, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Adam's, Dublin, 13 December 1995, lot 46.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1998, lot 357, where purchased by the previous owner.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 24 May 2012, lot 177, where purchased by the present owner.
Mrs C. Crawford.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1975, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Adam's, Dublin, 13 December 1995, lot 46.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1998, lot 357, where purchased by the previous owner.
Their sale; Christie's, London, 24 May 2012, lot 177, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
S.B. Kennedy, Paul Henry with a Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 279, no. 906, illustrated.
Exhibited
Bath, Holburne Museum, Living with Art: 20th Century Treasure in Bath's Private Collections, May - September 2004, catalogue not traced.
Special notice
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Further details
After a period of personal difficulties during the late 1920s, when his palette increasingly revolved around dry, muted ochres and umbers, Paul Henry's life became more settled in the early 1930s, most notably after his visits to Glenbeigh in County Kerry in 1933 and 1934. Henry's settled mood is reflected in his palette which is now brighter, and the paint more fluid than hitherto. Turf Stacks which, judged stylistically, dates from circa 1934-40 - and most likely the earlier part of that period - was almost certainly inspired by the Kerry landscape. Henry found the scenery around Glenbeigh delightful. 'It is lovely. Wherever one turns there is material for dozens of pictures', he wrote to a friend in America (letter of 13 December 1934 to James Healy in America). His good spirits at the time also reflected the encouraging economic outlook in Ireland where, he told his American confidant, things were 'brighter' than he had known them for some time.
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