IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 28 September 2026

38 The subject of the present work is likely to be Connemara or County Kerry where the artist worked in the early to mid 1930s and it is probably based on sketches done while touring the west. The lightness of the palette - a reflection of his improved financial and domestic situation - as well as the handling of the paint in the sky and foreground also suggests an execution date around this period. The use of the roadway as a device to draw the eye into the composition is one which Henry frequently employed to bring depth to a composition. Here, the viewer’s eye is drawn to the middle distance where the road recedes and is quickly halted by the background mountains and low hills. The narrative of the scene is confined to the cottages and turf stacks in the lower picture plane thus allowing the dominant cumulous clouds to take centre stage. Connemara Landscape was reproduced in the 1930s, possibly by the artist’s dealer Combridge’s, although the publishers are not known. We are grateful to the late Dr. S.B. Kennedy for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot, when offered for sale in 2016.