WHYTE'S SUMMER ONLINE ART AUCTION TIMED 10 JULY 2023

70 67 Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) CONNEMARA [1923-1924] photolithographic print signed in the plate lower right 17.25 by 22in. (43.8 by 55.9cm) Frame Size: 18.75 by 23in. (47.6 by 58.4cm) Literature: Kennedy, S.B. Dr., Paul Henry: with a Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p.223, catalogue no. 602 (illustrated) This image was used in an advertisement poster for LMS, London Midland & Scottish Railway. Captioned, Connemara by Paul Henry ‘Ireland This Year’ in 1925. Subsequently one of the best-selling LMS Railway posters, during 1932, for example 671 copies were sold in the British Isles and 50 copies in the USA (unidentified press cutting, Chizmarik Papers, UM). An early owner of the original work in oil was Lord Mayor of Cork (1930 and 1931) Francis Daly. For further reading see Kennedy, p.223. €200-€300 (£170-£260 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot67