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Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958)
MAAM VALLEY, CONNEMARA
oil on canvas laid on board
signed lower left; with faint inscription [Lady Mrs Power Conn? Glen?” and framing instructions] in pencil on reverse; with
label of C.D. Soar & Son [Kensington] also on reverse”
11_ x 13in. (28.58 x 33.02cm)
Provenance:
Artist’s studio till 1956;
Where acquired by P. R. Jennings, Esq.;
Adam’s & Bonhams, Dublin, 8 December 2004, lot 162;
Private collection;
Whyte’s, 21 May 2012, lot 79;
Whence purchased by the present owner
Exhibited:
‘Paintings by Paul Henry, R.H.A.’, Combridge’s Gallery, Dublin, 23 October to 6 November 1945, catalogue no. 5; ‘Pictures
by Paul Henry, RHA’, Heal & Son, Tottenham Court Road, London, from 14 January 1946, no. 3; ‘Paintings and Charcoals:
Paul Henry RHA’, Waddington Galleries, Dublin, 21 February to 3 March 1952 (no. 3, as The Maam Valley); RHA, Annual
Exhibition, Dublin, Spring 1953, no. 28; ‘Paintings and Drawings by Paul Henry’, The Studio, Sidmonton Square, Bray, until
8 November 1956, no. 12 (probably acquired by P. R. Jennings); ‘Paul Henry: Retrospective Exhibition’, Ritchie Hendriks
Gallery, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, and Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, Belfast, May-July 1957, no. 58 (Lent by P. R.
Jennings)
Literature:
Stewart, Anne M. (ed.), Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts: Index of Exhibitors and their Works 1826-1979, Dublin, Manton
Publishing, 1985, vol. 2, p.82;
Kennedy, S. B., Paul Henry, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2000, p.135;
Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale, 2007, catalogue no. 1035, p.303 (illustrated)
Painted in June or July 1942 when Henry visited Maam. The light palette and the bravura of the brushwork throughout,
and notably in the foreground, are characteristic of his work at this time. As often with Henry, little artistic license has
been taken with his interpretation of the landscape, which represents the view westwards on the road north from
Maam Cross in County Galway, near the junction with the Leenane to Cong road at Feernakill Bridge. The river in the
foreground is the Failmore River and the mountains beyond, which arrest the eye’s recession, are the Maamturks and the
hills of Joyce’s Country.
Dr. S.B. Kennedy
€ 30,000.00- € 40,000.00 (£22,390-£29,850 approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 18This work will be among the highlights on view at Whyte’s Belfast preview, James Wray Gallery from 6pm to 8pm Thursday 14 May and
10am to 3pm on Friday 15 May.
IMPORTANT IRISH ART ·
25 MAY 2015 AT 6PM