WHYTE'S EXCEPTIONAL IRISH ART MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2020

50 35 Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) KILLARY BAY, CONNEMARA, 1924-1925 oil on board signed lower right 14 by 16in. (35.6 by 40.6cm) Frame Size: 22 by 24in. (55.9 by 61cm) Condition: This work appears to be in excellent condition. The board is stable and surface is clean. No signs of cracking or flaking of the paint. Provenance: Adam’s, 8 September 1977, lot 45; Probably acquired by the Oriel Gallery, Dublin; Adam’s. 5 April 1979, lot 12A, as ‘The Lake’, a Lake and Mountain Landscape; Morgan O’Driscoll, 7 December 2015, lot 61; Private collection Exhibited: ’Pictures of Beautiful Ireland by Paul Henry’, The Studio, 13A Merrion Row, Dublin, circa 5-19 July 1925, catalogue no. 4; ’Four Irish Artists: J.H. Craig, Paul Henry, E.L. Lawrenson, J. Crampton Walker’, Fine Art Society, London, March 1928, catalogue no. 74; ’In Connemara, Paintings by Paul Henry, RHA’, Fine Art Society, London, from 11 April 1934, catalogue no. 2; ’Paul Henry RHA’, Oriel Gallery, Dublin, 21 March to 8 April 1978, as Evening on Killary Bay, catalogue no. 3; ’Paul Henry: An Irish Portrait’, Ulster Museum, 28 November 1997 to 19 April 1998, as Evening in Killary Bay Literature: Kennedy, Dr S.B., Paul Henry: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p.225, catalogue no. 615 (illustrated) Dr Kennedy notes that, “Despite the title, this may be a scene on Lough Fee, near Leenane, the background mountain with its distinctive profilr being Garraun which rises to a height of 450 metres. An almost identical composition to Landscape with Thatched Roofed Houses by a Lake (Kennedy, no. 622, p.226).” €150,000-€200,000 (£133,330-£177,780 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot35