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26 18 Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) SPRING INWICKLOW, c. 1926-8 oil on canvas signed lower right 21 by 20in. (53.3 by 50.8cm) Frame Dimensions: 31.5 by 30in. (80 by 76.2cm) This work appears to be in excellent condition. Provenance: Hackett Galleries, New York, 1930; James A. Healy, May 1931; from whom acquired by Frank Shea, New York; His estate sale, New York, c. 1990; Taylor Gallery, Belfast; Private collection Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1929, catalogue no. 24; ’Paintings by Paul Henry’, Hackett Gallery, New York, 10-22 March 1930, catalogue no. 18; ’Paintings of Ireland by Irish Artists’, Grace Horne’s Gallery, Boston, 31 March to 18 April 1930, catalogue no. 13; ’Contemporary Irish Artists’, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, October 1930, catalogue no. 23 Literature: Literary Digest, vol. 108, no. 11, 14 March 1931 (illustrated in colour on front cover); Powell-Anderson, mid-1940s, as Spring in Ireland (illustrated); Kennedy, Dr S.B., Paul Henry: Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 233, catalogue no. 659 (illustrated in colour) €150,000-€200,000 (£129,310-£172,410 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot18