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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)
DOOGORT FROM SLIEVEMORE, ACHILL, 1919-1920
oil on canvas board
with label of Reeves & Sons, Ltd, London sketching tablet on reverse
7.50 by 10.50in. (19.05 by 26.67cm)
Provenance:
The collection of Mrs. Barrett, Bervie Guest House, Achill Island;
Christie’s, ‘Fine Irish Paintings and Drawings’, 26 May 1989, lot 281;
Private collection;
Adam’s, 26 February 1990, lot 87, as The Sandy Shore;
Private collection
Literature:
Kennedy, S.B., Paul Henry Paintings Drawings Illustrations, Yale University
Press, New Haven & London, 2007, p.211, catalogue no. 538 (illustrated)
When Paul Henry frst arrived on Achill Island he lodged with John and Eliza
Barrett, who ran the post ofce in the village of Keel. ‘To this day,’ he wrote
late in life, ‘I have a warm feeling of gratitude to John and Eliza Barrett,’ who
in due course gave him ‘infnite and ungrudging’ hospitality (Henry, An Irish
Portrait, London , 1951, p. 4). The Barrett’s granddaughter, who today with
her husband runs The Bervie Guesthouse at Keel, later owned the picture.
The strand in the foreground is the beach at Doogort and the road on the
right hand side still winds its way through the tiny hamlet, which is little
changed from Henry’s time. The distant mountains are on the mainland of
Co. Mayo, just north of Mallaranny. The fuid handling of the paint, with
moderate impasto, is characteristic of Henry’s later Achill period and thus
suggests a date of execution of around 1919-20.
Dr. S.B. Kennedy
April 2012
€6,000-€8,000 (£4,918-£6,557 approx).
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA
(1877-1944)
GETTING TO BANGOR, COUNTY DOWN
oil on canvas board
signed lower left; signed and with title inscribed
on original label on reverse
9.50 by 13.50in. (24.13 by 34.29cm)
Provenance:
Collection of Belfast watercolourist Mrs
Margaret Rutherford (1889-1968);
Thence by descent to the previous owner;
Whyte’s, 27 April 2004, lot 210;
Whence purchased by the present owner
See website catalogue for a note on this painting:
www.whytes.com
€3,000-€5,000 (£2,459-£4,098 approx).