IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 28 September 2026

42 25 Paul Henry RHA (1876-1958) WEST OF IRELAND ROAD THROUGH THE BOG, c.1932-1935 oil on board signed lower right 14 by 16in. (35.6 by 40.6cm) Frame Size: 21 by 23in. (53.3 by 58.4cm) Provenance: In the collection of the previous owner’s family for approximately fifty years; Whyte’s, 30 May 2016, lot 22; Private collection The overall light tone of this painting suggests a date of c.1932-5. The mountain seen in the background, given this date, is likely to be in Co. Kerry, rather than Connemara. The scene might even have been painted on the Dingle Peninsula, which Henry visited in 1935 (cf. The Mountain Road, S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry: with a catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2007, p. 270, catalogue no. 856) to work on his Iveragh pictures (Kennedy, ‘Paul Henry’s Iveragh Pictures’ in John Crowley & John Sheehan, The Iveragh Peninsula, Cork University Press, 2009, pp. 441-4.) The use of very fluid paint on the roadway and elsewhere also suggests a date of the early 1930s when the artist’s mood - which is clearly reflected in his work - was lighter than it had been for most of the previous decade. The mountain, with its shoulder to the left, is also similar to The Mountain Road picture. In characteristic Henry fashion almost half of the picture plane is given to the sky, with its mixture of heavy cumulous clouds, which are not yet ominous, and the lighter cirrus clouds which are much higher. West of Ireland Road Through The Bog is numbered 1304 in S. B. Kennedy’s catalogue of Paul Henry’s oeuvre. the late Dr. S.B. Kennedy, April 2016 €100,000-€150,000 (£85,470-£128,210 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot25