WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2018 AT 6PM

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 26 November 2018 AT 6PM 15 Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE, WEST OF IRELAND, 1913-1914 oil on panel signed lower right; with Bell Gallery label on reverse; with inscription in pencil on reverse of board indicating possibly original owner and framing instructions [Mrs Laurel (?) / 3 Glandore Park / Blk as last / No slip] 13 by 16in. (33 by 40.6cm) Provenance: Weschler’s, Washington DC, USA, 2 December 2006, lot 540; Private collection Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at ‘Pictures of Connemara by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Henry’, Belfast Industrial Development Association, Queen’s Street, Belfast, 19 February to 5 March, 1914 This picture is almost certainly the view, looking eastwards, from Rosroe in County Mayo where Henry was living, at Aasleagh, near Leenane, at the time. In its review of the exhibition in 1914 Belfast’s Northern Whig commented that the landscape ‘Between Giant Hills’ was painted with the breadth and simplicity that marks Mr. Henry’s work at its best. The picture is numbered 1332 in S. B. Kennedy’s on- going cataloguing of Paul Henry’s oeuvre. Dr SB Kennedy HRHA €30,000-€ 40,000 (£26,550-£35,400 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 15